> > Is there any particular benefit to starting X by saying "init 5" rather > > than "startx" from runlevel 3? (Although, I can only do that as the > > superuser...) Also note, if you 'startx' as the super user you end up with an X session as the super user... This is really really a bad idea from a security point of view. Not tired it in a while, but I thought start x could be run by any user, not just root ? Chris