[100077] in RedHat Linux List
Re: login question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent R. Frazier)
Wed Nov 18 11:40:20 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:32:26 -0700
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From: "Kent R. Frazier" <kfrazier@NMSU.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981118162539.A18870@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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Thanks again, Thomas. That is just what I wanted to do.
Kent
At 04:25 PM 11/18/98 +0000, you wrote:
>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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