Running X in runlevel 3
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jun 19 21:46:37 UTC 2007
> > Is there any particular benefit to starting X by saying "init 5" rather
> > than "startx" from runlevel 3? (Although, I can only do that as the
> > superuser...)
Also note, if you 'startx' as the super user you end up with an X session as
the super user... This is really really a bad idea from a security point of
view.
Not tired it in a while, but I thought start x could be run by any user, not
just root ?
Chris
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