joshgoebel / keyszer

a smart, flexible keymapper for X11 (a fork/reboot of xkeysnail )
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readme.md improvements for running keyszer on semi-privileged users #68

Open drjaska opened 2 years ago

drjaska commented 2 years ago

readme.md could be improved so that new users adopting keyszer don't have to figure out anything. This makes it easier to adopt new software as the installing process is easy and the end product is safer than running it as the active user or as root.

Currently:

If logging into the new user is necessary them mentioning su - keymapper or another way to login on the newly created user should be mentioned as the user created with sudo useradd keymapper does not have a password and logging into them with su keymapper isn't possible creating a small issue for inexperienced Linux users to search for themselves instead of it being seamless.

drjaska commented 2 years ago

This isn't a bug but I'm unable to manage the labels myself.

joshgoebel commented 2 years ago

Can this be closed by #69 then?

drjaska commented 2 years ago

69 in its current state doesn't solve all of the listed issues and new users of keyszer don't have a copypasteable installation tutorial in the readme which would allow them to run keyszer on a semi-privileged user for the most secure setup configuration.

I've yet to check if only writing installation commands and comments for files from #71 would work flawlessly.