[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu without booting into X

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:43:28PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> > Is 'startx' what you want, vs. "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start"?
> > (i.e., do you get precisely the environment you want?)
> 
> If I do startx rather than gdm, applications which need superuser creds
> won't pop up a password requester. Weird.

Err, are you doing a 'startx' as a regular user, or while logged in as root?
(I realize normal Ubuntu config, root can't log in, but you can always go
and set a password).  Or are you doing 'sudo startx'?  If so, you're
running X apps _as root_, which is NOT recommended, for security reasons.

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-bill!
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