On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:45:26AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > It's long been a wish of mine to have an ability to decide at boot time that a > system should boot in "console-only" mode. That is, that no graphics/X > applications like e.g. xdm/kdm/gdm are automatically started even when they > are > configured to do so. > > Here is my attempt at implementing that: > https://gitorious.org/~avg/freebsd/avgbsd/commit/96f7051d63d4286ef6f0196d241e7855338a6ed7?format=patch > > All the option does at boot time is setting of 'inhibit_gui' variable for > kernel > environment. I envision that this variable could be properly and gracefully > handled in various startup scripts and/or application startup logic. > But to ensure that the option is always honored I've also added "ultimate > protection" to syscons that prohibits KDSETMODE/KD_GRAPHICS ioctl. This is too much, IMO. I understand why you may want to disable auto-start of login manager, but preventing a user from running X at all until she learns about kenv -u _and_ obscure code somewhere in the kernel, is unreasonable.
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