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echo: rberrypi
to: BOB PROHASKA
from: ROB MORLEY
date: 2017-08-04 02:35:00
subject: Re: How to shut down disp

On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 01:31:44 +0000 (UTC)
bob prohaska  wrote:

> Roger Bell_West  wrote:
> > On 2017-08-03, bob prohaska wrote:
> >>The result is curious. Issuing
> >>sudo xset dpms 300 600 1200
> >
> > Why did you sudo? This isn't a function that requires root.
> Ahh, didn't know any better.....
>
Getting into the habit of sudoing anything that /might/ need it erodes
some of the protection that you get from running as a user with lower
privileges.

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