I wasn’t aware you could do that. I obviously, didn’t give him root access, but I also didn’t lock it down enough to prevent him from still breaking it. This sounds like a good quick solution.
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Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In most modern Linux distributions, you could preconfigure retroarch and whatever else first, then set the filesystem to read-only, while mounting an overlay filesystem on top that is discarded at reboot.
The idea would be no matter how hard he breaks it, he shouldn’t have Root’s password and therefore cannot disable overlayfs
Look for the overlayroot package in whatever Linux distro you’re most comfortable with.
hactar42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s a great point.
Tos possibly save OP a few steps, batocera.org is a RetroPie fork that mounts the OS read-only by default. So the kid could still tinker with some lighter settings that save back to a different file system share, but any unrecoverable settings changes are prevented.