security question

akira420 · n00b Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 45

i've gotta security question, in order to start gdm/kdm, i have to be root, and once gdm is loaded, all i have to do is press alt+ctrl+f1 and i'm back into the root console. how can i prevent this?

i know i could mess with my inittab and make runlevel 5 my default, but i wanna know how to secure my box when runlevel 3 is my default
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mondauge · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

hmm, I haven't tried it, but maybe something like this works:

Gruffi · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

If your windowmanager has a start(something) executable then you can start it as user.

Like startxfce4 or startkde etc...
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ecatmur · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:41 am Post subject:

I use "exec /etc/init.d/xdm start" - it's just a pretty way of doing the same thing as mondauge.