[Malvern] Booting priveledges.
Keith Edmunds
keith at midnighthax.com
Sun Feb 6 11:02:19 GMT 2005
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:50:22 +0000
geoff bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I would like booting up as root to be prevented as a security measure.
Not much is going to happen, then - the system pretty much HAS to boot as
root. However, you can log in as whatever user you wish. Assuming you log
in as a user other than root, what happens when you type "startx"?
Keith
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