By nature of it being a wiki, IMHO you should go ahead and do whatever you want. I'm still now sure what benefit this gives you on an embedded device that doesn't ask for authentication anyway.<br><br>--Paul<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:chtaylo4@gmail.com">chtaylo4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Whatever is launching X is going to be what tells it the user to run the<br>> graphical environment as.<br><br>That was my assumption also. I changed the occurances of use/users<br>(one occurance of systemui/users) to root/root in the init scripts
<br>(and in a few places in /etc/osso-af-init) ...so I thought that would<br>have worked ... turns out I forgot to set the home path as well ....<br>so I changed out all the references to /home/user to /home/root and<br>made a symlink from /home/root to point to /root .... I then copied
<br>over (without overwrite) all the /home/user/.<stuff> over to root's<br>home dir ....<br><br>I'm booting as root now<br><br>I hope my little set of pathetic instructions above helps people out<br>in the future who want to boot as root.
<br><br>If there's demand, and the os dev team doesn't object ... I can post<br>something onto the mameo wiki ... what say everyone?<br><br>-Chris<br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-developers mailing list
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