Date: 17 Jul 2002 07:00:42 -0700 From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: Akthar Hussain <ahussain_fbsd@msn.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <1026914442.291.0.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> <DAV77tjWAaRPYTHhM5C00013732@hotmail.com> <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <DAV62gYVIOU3vwcajoV0001387c@hotmail.com> <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: > [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible. > > Are you sure about this? In order to validate passwords, the program > needs to be able to acess master.passwd, readable only by root. Even > the stock-standard xdm needs to be started up as root. > -- Why would a normal user even NEED to start xdm/gdm/xdm in the first place? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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