--- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: David Jardine <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: text-only login is root? > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 10:45 PM > Could you please wrap your lines (70 > or so characters per line)? It > makes it easier to read and to reply to. Sorry about that. I can't find a setting with this web mail that affects line length. I'll do manual carriage returns until I find a solution. > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:49:03PM -0700, post id wrote: > > I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and > used no login > > manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to > start the > > graphical session. Now I read a claim that if one > didn't use a login > > manager to log in and start X, then one was logging > in with root > > privileges. > > Where did you read that nonsense? I stumbled across it as I was reading howtos on installations on the Internet. > > > > That doesn't appear to be true since I > don't seem to have > > root privileges, although when I do ctrl-alt-f1 I get > a list of > > messages such as "Restore TV PLL," etc. rather than a > command prompt. > > You don't get a command prompt because you haven't logged > out of the > X session. And since that X session was started in that screen it's still there running when I do a ctrl+alt+f1. The login manager doesn't use a screen to start X, so it doesn't show up on a screen, right? So what's the following that appears on the screen?: Entering Restore TV Restore TV PLL Restore TV HV Restore TV Restarts Restore Timing Tables Restore TV Standard Leaving Restore TV This is a laptop with an LCD screen. Is it trying to drive an external monitor? > > > I don't get that on my other machines running > graphical login > > managers. Do I have a security problem here? If so, > will just > > installing a lightweight login manager (xdm?) cure it > or do I need to > > change some settings somewhere? I'd be thankful for > advice. > > You have no security problem. You started X as the > user who called > startx. You just have to learn how to close your X > session down > properly. > > Cheers, > David > So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I usually do "shutdown -h now" from a console when I'm ready to quit. Postid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
