From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 9: 7:49 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 AC3F637B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yeoman.sinbad.net (yeoman.sinbad.net [12.17.176.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2387D43E6E for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from stargate.northwindcom.net (39-10-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.10.39]) by yeoman.sinbad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357A11555A; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:43:13 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: Jesse Stevens , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xfree86 and users problem Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:43:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200209061649.31796.noodle@hypermax.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200209061649.31796.noodle@hypermax.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209060743.53415.akbeech@sinbad.net> 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 On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:49 pm, Jesse Stevens wrote: > as im only a newbie in this area (converted from a windows weenie) - i = am > probably missing something very simple but... > > i can only make the x windows system (startx) run by running as root - = any > other users cannot access it - it gives an error message that only suid > root can use the system - its very maddening and i cant seem to get any > help from anywhere else ive found yet - and yes ive read the documentat= ion > over a 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 > users - thanx > > Jesse > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Install the wrapper port. /usr/ports/x11/wrapper Beech --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message