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On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to |
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>>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave |
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>>> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. |
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>>> |
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>> You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra |
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>> steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login |
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>> on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? |
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> And what about this security risk: |
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> 1. lock screen |
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> 2. go away somewhere |
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> 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 |
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> 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c |
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> 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* |
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> 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes |
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Holy crap, thanks for that info, Alan. I never heard of that before |
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when looking into console vs. GUI login. I'll have to re-think my |
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reasons for sticking with a console login now... |
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