Single user distro

Dritzo · 03-14-2011, 08:14 AM

Does anyone know if there is a distro that is based on single user?

repo · 03-14-2011, 08:15 AM

Welcome to LQ

Every distro is for single user, you can however add as much users as you like.

Kind regards

Dritzo · 03-14-2011, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by repo

Welcome to LQ

Every distro is for single user, you can however add as much users as you like.

Kind regards

That's not exactly what i meant.
Not sure how to explain it. But think in the lines of not even being able to add extra users. Just one user with administrator rights.

repo · 03-14-2011, 08:36 AM

I don't see the point, but you can remove ordinary users, and only keep root.
Puppy and slackware don't create a user when you install, only root.
Ubuntu creates only one user with admin right using sudo, no root account.
You can however add users on every distro
May I ask why you want this?

Kind regards

Dritzo · 03-14-2011, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by repo

I don't see the point, but you can remove ordinary users, and only keep root.
Puppy and slackware don't create a user when you install, only root.
Ubuntu creates only one user with admin right using sudo, no root account.
You can however add users on every distro
May I ask why you want this?

Kind regards

Ok, will try out Puppy. That seems to come closest to what i had in mind.
The reason i am looking for this is that i like my os to be more back to basic.
All the multiuser crap is really just bloat that i try to avoid.
Will see how this goes.
Thanks for the help

repo · 03-14-2011, 10:01 AM

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The reason i am looking for this is that i like my os to be more back to basic.

Then do a minimal install, like debian or slackware.

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All the multiuser crap is really just bloat that i try to avoid.

It's not crap, there is a reason why root only accounts are discouraged.
But hey, it's your system, if it gets compromised.

Kind regards

syg00 · 03-14-2011, 10:34 AM

I like a basic Arch system for these sort of situations. Good package manager, very up-to-date - I'm generally looking for latest kernel test-beds.
Works for me. Never been compromised that I'm aware of - but then, the systems are disposable. And rebuilt from scratch reasonably regularly.

PrinceCruise · 03-14-2011, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Dritzo

i like my os to be more back to basic.
All the multiuser crap is really just bloat that i try to avoid.

I really don't get your bloat thing. You can seriously make any of your Linux distro 'multi-user bloat-free', the way you want.
As in at the time of install most of the distros will add Root and a user account and password for them, AND that summed up to only 2 active users.
Darn!!! how can having 1 root and 1 normal user be a bloat (?) That itself is a very basic thing.

DavidMcCann · 03-14-2011, 11:40 AM

Don't use a conventional distro and run it as root: not if you want to go on line with it. Puppy is especially designed to run with a single user, yet still maintain security. Is it that you don't like having to log in? If you search this site, you'll see threads on how to make log-in automatic.

Dritzo · 03-14-2011, 11:45 AM

Relax guys, i didn't come here to argue about the subject.
I know my opinion about this isn't generally accepted as right, i have no problem with that.
I was really just hoping to find what i couldn't find on my own.
Apparently it just doesn't exist.