I logged to remote machine hosting DSL using putty, then issued "su -l <newuser>" and after supplying the correct password, I noticed that this will start a new windows manager on the remote machine.
It looks like the user profile was loaded to restart the X Manager on the remote machine ?In runlevel 5 it's default behavior to start a new X session. Boot into runlevel 2 if you want text mode onlyDSL has Debian blood in it. Debian does not make any distinction between runlevels 2 to 5.
* 0 - Halt * 1 - Single * 2 - Full multi-user with display manager (GUI) * 3 - Full multi-user with display manager (GUI) * 4 - Full multi-user with display manager (GUI) * 5 - Full multi-user with display manager (GUI) * 6 - Reboot
Anyway, it's just changing to another user using the su command and it should not be restarting the X session on the remote machine.
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DSL has Debian blood in it. Debian does not make any distinction between runlevels 2 to 5.
DSL is not Debian, though. Debian is a distant ancestor, and DSL does not behave as its great grandfather did.
runlevel 2 = text mode as root runlevel 3 (recently added) = text mode as dsl
If you want to boot into a desktop but prevent a new one from a remote connection, you'll probably need to modify /home/dsl/.bash_profile to remove startx. This would mean having to type "startx" in order to get a desktop initially. A more complicated alternative would be to check if the login is local or remote, and start x accordingly. I couldn't say how to do that, though.
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