From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 23:20:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from randall.mail.atl.earthlink.net (randall.mail.atl.earthlink.net [207.69.200.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C0637B405; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smui02.slb.mindspring.net ([199.174.114.25]) by randall.mail.atl.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16R6q2-0007Lc-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:19:54 -0500 Received: by smui02.slb.mindspring.net id CAA0000005667; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:19:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:19:54 -0500 From: To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: x windows fatal server error when not root. Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: 66.56.82.228 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 Hello, When I am root I can run x windows fine but when I am not root I get the following error. How could I go about fixing this ? Thanks in advance, Mike frogger# uname -a FreeBSD frogger.nuggie.net 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Wed Jan 16 20:09:57 EST 2002 root@frogger.nuggie.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FROGGER i386 frogger# Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "frogger.nuggie.net:0" in "remove" command su-2.04$ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message