Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 6 Mar 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > > Networks farm. If I s

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a malicious > user ca

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > [1] "run

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Christoph Bugel
> [1] "runlevel 5" is where redhat (and following it some other distros, > like Mandrake). I believe that SuSE and debian have both runlevel 3 > for graphical login. Debian has gdm, kdm (and even xdm and wdm...) as > init.d services. FYI, on my slackware box it is runlevel 4. (I don't

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Christoph Bugel
gt; I love it when seemingly complicated problems can be solved with basic > > UNIX concepts :) > > > > Adi, the problem with your (and Shachar's) suggestion is that it will > still cause my sound to disappear. And besides, run-level 5 was introduced Hi Shlomi, I don't u

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Erez Doron wrote: > runlevel 5 does also give you virtual terminals. > > just press alt-ctrl-1 and you get to VT #1 > there you can login, set the display, and do whatever you like. You can set the display, but you will only be able to connect to that display if you are autho

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Erez Doron
nyone to enter through there. Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Adi Stav wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > > >

[Fwd: Run Level 5]

2002-03-05 Thread Erez Doron
regards erez. Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > > to use. > > The most common argument against using xdm at startup ("runlevel 5" [1] is >

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Adi Stav wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > > Netw

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > to use. The most common argument against using xdm at startup ("runlevel 5" [1] is that if you change the hardware or the settings the X server may f

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Adi Stav wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > > Netw

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ver, I noticed that using it >my sound eventaully became non-functional for some reason. It's probably a >bug of some sort, but I have better things to do with my time than to try >and sort it out. > >3. Using Run-Level 5. That way, no virtual console are needed to invoke >the

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Tue 2002-03-05, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: . > I made xdm not start an X server (comment the last line in > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) and have written an init.d script that runs > 'X -query localhost' in a loop with a 'sleep 30' between them. > That way, if X fails to start, I have 30 seconds to lo

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a mal

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Tue 2002-03-05, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a malicious > user can s

Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a malicious user can switch to the console from which it was invoked, press Ctrl+C or