From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 18:18:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5248A16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 18:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3200B43D1F for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 18:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dustin@marsik.org) Received: from FF01.marsik.org (c-24-12-167-221.client.comcast.net[24.12.167.221]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20040529011808014007m4jme>; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:18:08 +0000 Received: from 10.1.1.10 by FF01.marsik.org (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 28 May 2004 20:18:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:18:07 -0500 Message-ID: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC69303E6B7@FF01.marsik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Running X under non-root content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Thread-Index: AcRFF/Neg2dEOTaHS5utebkHcgoTMwAAHbKA From: "Dustin" To: Subject: RE: Running X under non-root X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 01:18:17 -0000 Exactly right, that's what I'm trying to do. So I tried the install, but apparently, wrapper-1.0_2 is already installed. Any other ideas? ~Dustin -----Original Message----- From: Eric Anholt [mailto:eta@lclark.edu]=20 Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 7:58 PM To: Dustin Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running X under non-root On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:42, Dustin wrote: > Hello, >=20 > 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=20 > KDE running, but when I couldn't get the Nmap GUI to run under K, I=20 > removed it and installed Gnome. Is there something specific linked to > this user that is trying to run KDE, and not Gnome? >=20 > 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. --=20 Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu =20 http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org