Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:13:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie Message-ID: <20021017161335.GA91257@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021017152528.308.qmail@web13501.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021017152528.308.qmail@web13501.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:25:27AM -0700, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> comment out the line that starts xdm -nodaemon
> and add a similar one to start the XFree86
>
> sth like
>
> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86" xterm on secure
>
> this shud result in X starting every time you start your system with the X-mouse screen and the
> pixel-chessboard background.
Whoa! Bad karma. Doing this will result in an X session running as
root which anyone can just walk up to your machine and use. You
really, really don't want to do that.
Honestly, this is exactly why xdm(1) exists.
Cheers,
Matthew
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