[lug] Linux Single User/Embeded (HELP?)

[George Sexton]

Have you tried making this program their shell in /etc/passwd?

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Sebastian Sobolewski ( Zeb )
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:50 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Linux Single User/Embeded (HELP?)



Hi All,

	Where I work I've written a software package for controlling some custom
Hard Drive test equipment and I've ran into an interesting problem.  The
Application is TEXT mode based and requires operator keyboard input for
control. I have the same code base compiling and running under Windows, Dos
and Linux. In dos I use a simple BATCH file to start it up at boot.  Under
windows It's executed using the "run" registry entry.
	What I'm trying to figure out how to make this thing work right under
Linux.  For now I hacked the Run Level 1 scripts to run the app, but I
really don't want it running as root.  What I really want is for Linux to
automagically login as a user with permissions to only run this app, while
still allowing someone else to switch to a different virtual console and be
able to login as root without disturbing the app. (AKA in multi-user
mode)  I need other services like http running for some remote access
stuff, as well as needing to be able to mount remote SMB shares on that
computer.  Security (As in someone hacking the box) is really not much of
an issue since the computer will be running in an industrial environment
with a controlled network connection. (No outside world link)  I just want
to make sure an operator doesn't accidental nuke the OS.

	Has anyone here done anything like this before? Is there a clean way of
doing this? I looked at the HOW-TO-S and they don't cover anything like
this :(.

	If I can't get this to work I'll be forced to use WinNT and I'm not a big
fan of NT's stability, especially since this equipment will be working 24/7.


-Sebastian


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