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I wish I was more computer savvy, I am an absolute computer challenged guy but what you say in my quote above is interesting.Clam01 wrote
Our object is to make our puppy (any breed or cross) more secure. As we all know, our puppies are not secure because we run as root.
To be secure we want to run as spot. The easy way to do this is to move our root to spot.
To do this just open two file windows (one if you run one of those two-paner file managers), go up one level to /, in one and open the other to spot.
Then drag root from the / window and drop it in the spot one. That's all there is to it. Our root is now safe in spot. We are all done. Literally.
Everything we do from this point on that triggers a call to a file in root will stop for being unable to find root.
Nothing can get instruction from root, now tucked safely away in spot, secure even from us and our own computer.
What is really cool and real virus like is the way all our open programs continues to work until we try to do something with one, whereupon it immediately freezes up. It's proper virus-infection behavior.
To recover demonstrates the first-most security feature of puppy. We have to hard-reboot, since root being lost makes everything stop (including, fortunately, writing the move of root to the pup-save file).
When our puppy reboots it reboots through a normal restart to a normal puppy rebuilt from the main sfs, pup-save and additional sfs files. A healthy puppy, all recovered, no longer sick. Puppy is, indeed, virus-proof, and idiot-proof! Not, however, that pup-saves can collect malware and should be cleaned every now and again.
For convenience, if you customize settings, and add programs, set your puppy up as you want and build a custom that incorporates what you want as you want it, so all is in your main sfs, then save everything important to one or two files in your pup-save that you can move out to a partition before you clean your pup-save (mouse a frame around all contents and quiet-delete).
I wish somebody geeky could test it and explain how to use it for us Noobs.
Could you tell more about this part?
I feel very dense when I read that part. Sorry wish I knew what you refer to.For convenience, if you customize settings, and add programs, set your puppy up as you want and build a custom that incorporates what you want as you want it, so all is in your main sfs,
then save everything important to one or two files in your pup-save that you can move out to a partition before you clean your pup-save
(mouse a frame around all contents and quiet-delete).
Important question.
To do hard reboots that is not something good to do. So that one needs a less dangerous solution!