From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 11:14:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 11:14:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17CE37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:14:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA04871; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:20:05 +0100 Message-ID: <3A410557.95571092@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:15:35 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Allan P. Magmanlac" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Allan P. Magmanlac" schrieb: > > I installed the latest version of freebsd and enabled xdm. > When xdm starts, i try to login as root but it wont let me in, it does > not give me error message. But if i log in as a normal user, i have no > problem. What could be wrong? check ~/.xinit and ~/.xsession Errors in .xsession get collected in .xsession-errors. > Another thing, when kde starts after logging in as normal user > and open a shell and type su at the command prompt, it says that I > am not in the correct group to su to root. What can I do so that I can su to > root. As root, add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/groups. You have to be member of the group wheel to be able to use su. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message