<div dir="auto">Bernie, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you considered Haiku, it\u2019s a free BeOS and it sounds like it has that single user mode gui you may be looking for. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jeremy</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 10:07 PM bctill <<a href="mailto:bctill@ece.uvic.ca">bctill@ece.uvic.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On 2023-04-03 17:42, Peter Willis wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> Hi BCLUG --<br>
>> <br>
>> "especially if one considers a lot of the applications as users, since <br>
>> having their own user & group allows for the file permissions"<br>
>> <br>
>> What an interestng way of looking at it...<br>
>> <br>
>> "Try `man sudoers` for details"<br>
>> <br>
>> And that's even more interesting. Thanks!<br>
>> <br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> -- Bernie.<br>
>> <br>
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> <br>
> It should also be noted that new users, added to your system, are not <br>
> automatically added to the 'sudo' group.<br>
> <br>
> Hence new users will not have sudo access to your system unless <br>
> specifically given those rights by an admin (you).<br>
> <br>
> MS Windows also has multiuser and not all users added to that are <br>
> admins either.<br>
> So no difference really.<br>
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Hi Peter --<br>
<br>
Yes, you're right, but I never had more than one user on my XP system, <br>
never set a password, and never used a login screen. None of this ever <br>
caused a problem.<br>
<br>
Truth be told, there were a number of accounts on the machine, but I <br>
disabled all of them except Administrator, Default User (namely, me), <br>
and a dummy user that Visual Studio created to run some of the <br>
enterprise-edition development tools. Once I figured out how to give <br>
admin powers to the default user, I never used the Administrator account <br>
again.<br>
<br>
One of the few things I disliked about XP was the way it presented the <br>
desktop as though it was the root of everything else on the machine, <br>
when actually it was just an awkwardly-named directory buried deep in <br>
the tree. I never used My Documents or any of the "standard" <br>
subdirectories of the desktop because it made me feel disoriented.<br>
<br>
I thought of my directory structure not as a tree but as a forest, in <br>
which the trees were called A:\, B:\, and so on. The number of disk <br>
drives eventually increased to 14, and of course each one had its own <br>
root directory.<br>
<br>
Everything I installed was installed for "all users", because I knew <br>
that there would only ever be one. This enormously simplified system <br>
administration and registry maintenance, which resulted in extraordinary <br>
system stability. I ran that system 24/365 for more than two decades, <br>
and never had to turn it off except to work on the hardware.<br>
<br>
Sadly, that system had to be retired because no one writes drivers for <br>
it anymore, or maintains the applications that run on it. Therefore I <br>
can no longer migrate it to newer hardware, or maintain compatibility <br>
with newer file formats or protocols.<br>
<br>
Hence, I am now looking to feret out the best practices that will allow <br>
me to create a similarly simple, stable and reliable environment under <br>
Linux.<br>
<br>
I'm also looking to configure something really lean and hard, not unlike <br>
Alpine or BunsenLabs, on which to run a web server, an email stack, and <br>
a deep-packet-inspecting firewall... not all on the same physical <br>
machine, of course.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-- Bernie.<br>
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