-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 February 2004 21:20, Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:26 pm, James Stark wrote: > > > Needless to say, any help is most wecome. How do you start kdm > > > from the console? > > > > execute: > > > > /etc/init.d/kdm start > > > > as root. > > This will cause kdm to have root priveleges, will it not? Is this > good from a security standpoint?
Root privileges are required in order to run xfree86. The kdm initscript starts the X server. To the OP: from a virtual console (command line), you can start kde directly by running: $ startx /usr/bin/kde3 Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkA5GTwACgkQIzuKV+SHX/k4PQCfS2LAxSWsMO83rbiPki9+CE3B IEgAnRv7Ilpbw8Eh1YKPgWO9k2R9yVyO =CDEF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----