From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 23:57:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D0537B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hypermax.net.au (mail.hypermax.net.au [202.94.93.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D614443E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noodle@hypermax.net.au) Received: (qmail 12402 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 06:53:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pringlehost.blah) ([202.94.74.31]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.hypermax.net.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Sep 2002 06:53:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Jesse Stevens To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: xfree86 and users problem Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:49:31 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209061649.31796.noodle@hypermax.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as im only a newbie in this area (converted from a windows weenie) - i am= =20 probably missing something very simple but... i can only make the x windows system (startx) run by running as root - an= y=20 other users cannot access it - it gives an error message that only suid r= oot=20 can use the system - its very maddening and i cant seem to get any help f= rom=20 anywhere else ive found yet - and yes ive read the documentation over a=20 couple of times and still cant seem to find the answer help would be fantastic right about now as i wanna customise one of my us= ers -=20 thanx Jesse To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message