From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 14:03:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12439 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:03:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12432 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:03:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06607; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Wes Peters cc: Stan Brown , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't login as root using xdm (2.2) In-Reply-To: <199703240436.VAA00647@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Stan Brown writes: > > I have installed 2.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT. For some reason I can't > > login as root at the xdm prompt. An ordinary user works fine. root can > > login from a svag login prompt. > > > > What might I have wrong here? > > Hard to tell, but the file .xsession-errors in root's home directory > should enlighten you. Login as root (and fail), then switch to a text > console, login, and examine the errors found there. Correct them and > (attempt) login at the XDM screen. Didn't we go through this already? The xdm prompt is a pty . . . a network terminal . . . it's marked insecure in /etc/ttys, as it should be. > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > > > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."