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erekose

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Posted: 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 ?

curaga

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Posted: 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

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erekose

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Posted: 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.

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 10 2007,15:43

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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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