su -lForum: X and Fluxbox Topic: su -l started by: erekose Posted by erekose on Nov. 10 2007,07:16
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 ? Posted by curaga on Nov. 10 2007,13:53
In runlevel 5 it's default behavior to start a new X session. Boot into runlevel 2 if you want text mode only
Posted by erekose on Nov. 10 2007,15:39
DSL 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. Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 10 2007,15:43
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. |