'console' command ----------------- Slim permits one to type the special username 'console' to popup a terminal emulator with the login program. In the previous packages (<1.3.1) the terminal command was set to x-terminal-emulator (cf. #499048). That was quite a bad suggestion as it allowed a terminal like gnome-terminal to be run, which has a feature to open new windows/tabs that instead of running login gave access to a shell with root privileges. On this behave, it is highly recommended to use a terminal emulator like xterm. The new package defaults and recommends xterm again. Thanks to Piotr Engelking for pointing out that issue (#536542). -- Mike Massonnet Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:07:20 +0100