Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:10:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Akthar Hussain <ahussain_fbsd@msn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDM Message-ID: <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <DAV77tjWAaRPYTHhM5C00013732@hotmail.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> <DAV77tjWAaRPYTHhM5C00013732@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:29:58AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am unable to start KDM in my Freebsd 4.5 as normal user.
> the /var/log/kdm.log error reports that "Only root wants to run KDM"
>
>
> Any one can let me know what I have to do , to run kdm as ordinary users.
You can't run kdm as a normal user. It must run as root. Once you've
got kdm running, you can _LOG_ _IN_ as a normal user. To get kdm
running, you can have a startup script, or tweak the entry for ttyv8
in /etc/ttys
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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