Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:57:41 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Dustin <dustin@marsik.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running X under non-root Message-ID: <1085792261.816.4.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC69303E6B6@FF01.marsik.org> References: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC69303E6B6@FF01.marsik.org>
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:42, Dustin wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.8, XFree86 and Gnome are working well under > root, but I cannot get into X using a normal user. I originally had KDE > running, but when I couldn't get the Nmap GUI to run under K, I removed > it and installed Gnome. Is there something specific linked to this user > that is trying to run KDE, and not Gnome? > > Thanks in advance, It;s not really clear to me, but it sounds like you're asking, "What do I have to do to let normal users run startx." You need to install x11/wrapper from ports, which is a setuid wrapper program for the X server. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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