Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On 2014-03-23 21:06:55 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-)
> According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using a
> log-file, given that you indeed don't have ~/.xinitrc .
> So maybe the man-page of startx(1) has to be updated, since it only talks about
> ~/.xinitrc .
Because startx runs the xinitrc (either the user's one or the system
one) and doesn't know anything about the .xsession file. Xsession files
(including the user's .xsession) are sourced via the system xinitrc.
Perhaps a section about Debian recommendations and default configuration
should be added.
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