Re: text-only login is root?
--- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
> From: David Jardine <david@jardine.de>
> Subject: Re: text-only login is root?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: postid@att.net
> Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 1:42 AM
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:26:38PM
> -0700, post id wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine <david@jardine.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> I can't find a setting with this web mail
> > that affects line length. I'll do manual carriage
> returns until
> > I find a solution.
> >
>
> Isn't that a good enough solution? :)
>
> > > [...]
> > >
> Now I read a claim that if one didn't use
> a login
> > > manager to log in and start X, then one was
> logging in with root
> > > privileges.
> > >
> > > Where did you read that nonsense?
> >
> > I stumbled across it as I was reading howtos on
> installations
> > on the Internet.
>
> Well, forget it.
>
> > [...]
> >
> > And since that X session was started in that screen
> > it's still there running when I do a ctrl+alt+f1.
>
> Right. If you move to (probably) tty7, you'll be back
> in your X
> session.
>
> > The login manager doesn't use a screen to start X, so
> > it doesn't show up on a screen, right?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know about login managers.
>
> >
> > So what's the following that appears on the screen?:
> > Entering Restore TV
> > Restore TV PLL
> > Restore TV HV
> > Restore TV Restarts
> > Restore Timing Tables
> > Restore TV Standard
> > Leaving Restore TV
>
> They're messages left by startx (or programs called by
> startx). I have
> no idea what those particular ones mean, but they look
> unproblematic.
> Better than the error messages I always see. :)
>
> >
> > This is a laptop with an LCD screen.
> > Is it trying to drive an external monitor?
>
> No idea.
>
> > [...]
> > > You just have to
> learn how to close your X
> > > session down properly.
> > >
> > So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I
> > usually do "shutdown -h now" from a console when I'm
> > ready to quit.
> >
>
> We'd need to know more about your setup to answer
> that. Are you using a
> window manager (fluxbox? blackbox? fvwm?...)? You can
> always close your
> X session by brute force with ctrl-alt-backspace; closing
> all running
> applications (including xterms) ususally does it more
> elegantly.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
My setup is a seven-year-old laptop, with Lenny and Fluxbox
and Icewm. The laptop has a cd/cdrw/dvd drive,
a 40GB hard drive, wifi and ethernet. Most-used software are
browser and email plus some office and DTP apps. To shutdown, I
usually manually close down apps, then do "shutdown -h now"
in an Xterm. Is there a better way?
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