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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:44:04 +0100
From:      Jan Schlesner <jschlesn@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
To:        Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: non root XFree-4
Message-ID:  <20011122184404.A80385@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-Reply-To: <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>; from ronan@melim.com.br on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:23:56PM -0200
References:  <3BFD2C26.9080300@myrealbox.com> <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>

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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:23:56PM -0200, Ronan Lucio wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD-4.4 + XFree-4_1 + Kde-2.2
> Everything works fine except for the XFree just works
> with root, when I do a startx by a normal user, it returns
> a error:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> xf860OpenConsole: 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!

If you don't want use xdm or kdm, you must install the x11/wrapper 
package.  (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper)

Bye
Jan

-- 
It's better to reign in hell,
	than to serve in heaven...

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