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modnar

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Friday, July 11th 2003, 3:54am

Starting kde

Right now i have two ways of starting kde:
as root with command `kdm'
as any user with commands `export XSESSION=kde-3.1.2;startx`

i tend to prefer the first, since i am lazy. Is one of them substantially better than the other? i would hate to be exposing security holes by running kdm as root, except i suppose its run setuid root eventually anyway.

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tuxnet

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Friday, July 11th 2003, 7:49am

Personally I would never log on to my systems as root, due to security risks and if I did needed root privileges I would just su – sudo on command line. Assuming sudo is configured.
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Saturday, July 12th 2003, 5:49pm

kdm is usuall run as root.
But it is uncommon to start kdm using the commandline.
It should start in init5 as service.

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