Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Glenn English wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 21:15 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
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> > So you mean that whenever I use Gnome I'm running with root
> > permissions? 
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> No. When you log in, you're you. It's gdm that runs as root. 
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> Do 'ps aux | grep gdm' and look at the username.

if I log in CLI as non-root user, run startx, then what does gdm run as? 
root again? just curious.

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