Running X in runlevel 3
John Pierce
john.j35 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 22:05:48 UTC 2007
> 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 ?
>
You should not log in as the superuser, just log in as your normal
user and if you need to be superuser then open a shell and su.
This is the result of the ps command from a shell while logged in
under my normal user from level 5
[root at linbook2 ~]# ps aux | grep gdm
root 3127 0.0 0.3 16072 3284 ? Ss 16:40 0:00
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root 3204 0.0 0.3 16412 3080 ? S 16:40 0:00
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root 3206 14.5 2.5 32936 23036 tty7 SLs+ 16:40 2:48
/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
root 3742 0.0 0.0 4008 724 pts/1 S+ 16:59 0:00 grep gdm
Notice gdm is still there as a process so it must be consuming some
resources, maybe not a lot but I will system free memory from several
states and report back.
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John
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