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Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience



On Wed 19 Mar 2014 at 22:48:49 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> 
> > SO: what to do?
> > 
> > What I did for a while was:
> > a) log in to Linux console
> > b) startx; exit
> 
> Outstanding! I'm going to start doing that. Thanks.

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. Instant root access
would be available within X if tty_tickets is set off.


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