On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Aaron wrote: > Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my > users home directory and see what happens.
Aaron, Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as root. X is a _very_ large program, with I'm sure (even consideering its fine pedigree coming out of MIT's Project Athena) a fair amount of bugs, buffer overflows, etc.; not the type of things you would want to have root privileges. You might find it helpful to read up a little more on some gentle intros to linux/unix that might help answer some of these questions (see linuxdoc.org, Michael Kofler's Linux Intro book published by Addison Wesley, etc.). Otherwise, hope the above helps and take care, Daniel > > Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:21 PM > To: Aaron > Subject: Re: Default Window Manager > > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:55:30PM -0700, Aaron wrote: > > Good question. I didn't have an .xinitrc file until I created one in /root > > for the root user and then added the line 'echo gnome-session' to it. I'll > > check and get back to you > > > > You shouldn't be starting X as root. .xinitrc belongs in your home > directory not /root. Go ahead and post it to the list. > kent > > -- > From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted > First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
