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		deeblering4 on March 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ISH: An Alpine Linux Shell on iOS There are a couple interesting choices that I'd like to understand the reasoning for: * The shell runs as root as soon as you open it, why not a use less privileged user and sudo? * There are getty processes running on tty[1-6] what is the purpose of this?

tbodt on March 19, 2020 [–]

iSH author here. Answer to both: because that's how the Alpine Linux minirootfs image is set up.

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