Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I used to do that for months (or even years?) until one day I read > about security issues if not using a dm,
That seems pretty lame. You only need to do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a login prompt unless there has been changes to the default inittab. and installed slim. I have > spent about an hour now, trying to find it if it was on Arch or > Gentoo, without success. As I do not have much security knowledge, I > believed it. I'd like to see that rationale. Most dm instances are a bigger problem because they usually enable XDMCP by default. > Also, I notice that most linux distros use one. Most distros pander to the computer illiterate. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
