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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 23:00:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Nick Liu <nickliu@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Users cannot run X-windows
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Nick Liu wrote:

> If I login as a normal user, then I couldn't run startx.  I was able to
> load xdm though, but when I put in user name and user password, the screen 
> just goes back to the login mode. 

In what way can't you run startx?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major