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Re: login question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 18 11:25:23 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:25:39 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981118090848.00939a70@cnmailsvr.nmsu.edu>; from Kent R. Frazier on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:12:43AM -0700
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Kent R. Frazier writes:
[...]
> Is it possible to configure Linux so that some users will go directly to X
> after login and others login to the command prompt (say root for example).
> I hope my question is clear enough.
The standard apporach is to let Linux boot into runlevel 5 (I think that's
described in some FAQ), but that would start X for all users. At home, I
decided to simply add "startx" at the end of my girlfriend's .login file
(tcsh), so her account comes up in X, whereas mine and root's don't.
Ciao,
Thomas
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