Root Or Unprivileged User?

[bort_83]

Hi to all! I have a C3000 from 2 days, when I opened for the first time the sistem (pdaxii13) log-in without any password with the user ROOT.

As for the other linux system is usefull in zaurus have another account rather than root?

CIAO!

[Antikx]

You can make a new user if you want. There's the useradd and adduser commands but I think useradd does a better job at setting up a new user ( https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123930 ).

You will want to be careful about launching X windows as a non-root user.
Some distro's like OE's OZ are designed to be run X as a non-root user. pdaXrom and it's spinoffs (i.e. pdaXii13) require some work on your part to run X as a non-root user.

[Meanie]

pdaXii13 has other users, ie zaurus, privoxy, etc... which are used when connecting to other systems or allowing access from other systems. it uses root as the active user which shouldn't be a problem compared to other linux systems since the Zaurus is in most cases only used by one user, ie it is not a true multi user system and by default, the zaurus is not connected to the net constantly. telnetd, ftpd and sendmail are not enabled on the zaurus which are the biggest backdoor entries, it has samba (but not started by default) and sshd running, but only non-root users, ie zaurus is allowed access.
one thing is important though, you should set a password for root and zaurus user
if you are really paranoid, install a firewall or setup iptables to block malicious packets or probes...

[bort_83]

thanks to all for the answers,
my paranoy is to make some errors in deleting files that are needed for the system

[Meanie]

thanks to all for the answers,
my paranoy is to make some errors in deleting files that are needed for the system
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[bort_83]

make  a backup so when you do something bad, you can restore it.

once you have done a few backups and restores, you will automatically learn not to mess things up cause it takes hours to restore  paranoia sometimes also works for your advantage ...
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thank you,

with pdaXii on a C3000 is possible to make some backup like disk image on PCs ? this can be usefull ?

What is in the ROM of C3000 if the root fs is in the microdrive? is usefull to backup also the ROM?

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[Meanie]

make  a backup so when you do something bad, you can restore it.

once you have done a few backups and restores, you will automatically learn not to mess things up cause it takes hours to restore  paranoia sometimes also works for your advantage ...
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thank you,

with pdaXii on a C3000 is possible to make some backup like disk image on PCs ? this can be usefull ?

What is in the ROM of C3000 if the root fs is in the microdrive? is usefull to backup also the ROM?

suggest me something to search for
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zbackup takes care of that...