Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:24:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: non root XFree-4 Message-ID: <20011123182249.S37220-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ronan Lucio wrote: > Hi, > > 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! > > And my second problem is that the man doen´t works on > console. > > Does anybody know what I´m doing wrong? You didn't RTFM. cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper make install s/X/Xwrapper/ in your .xserverrc. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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