just wondering about how one would go about starting an application on a local console. for instance something like mysqlclient or mutella etc..... so that you could access it by hitting ctrl-alt-f9 for instance (no login prompt, instead application prompt).
i would assume that this would be done through inittab, but don't know exactly how to link it to the console..... i realise the security implications involved with this, i was just wanting to have a bit of a play. on that, would the security implications run much further then having an application running as root accessible to anyone physically at the computer (which i am sure you could subvert with an su), or having a process respawning that someone might keep killing (but init will stop respawning it for periods of time if this keeps occurring)? would there be any problems with applications requiring shell variables, then again this could be circumvented by running a script that calls bash (for example) followed by the application to run, couldn't it? anyway any thoughts greatly appreciated, matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
