[Malvern] Booting priveledges.

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:50:22AM +0000, geoff bagley wrote:
> How are you starting X? Does your machine boot up and give you a
> 
> >graphical login or do you need to login in and type startx?
>
> The latter.
> I would like booting up as root to be prevented as a security measure.

If you're gonna run X at all then I think the X server runs as setuid
root in any case to be able to access the hardware.  I just run kdm, it's
not worth worrying about.

Chris
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