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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Florian Philipp < |
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lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> fei huang schrieb: |
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> > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows |
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> > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. |
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> You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access |
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> to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console |
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> session you used to start x-server. |
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> Locking your X-session won't help against that. |
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I don't think so - with the local.start method that he's talking about, the |
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Virtual Console isn't logged in - X is started in the initscripts, not from |
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a logged in console... |
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Fei - try checking the value of the "HOME" and other environment variable |
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with the local.start method - I think that, since the initscripts are not |
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running in an "interactive" login prompt, some necessary env vars are not |
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being populated correctly. Maybe if you changed your su command to "su |
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myuser -c "source /etc/profile && startx &"? |
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HTH- |
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-James |
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