Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:33:17 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: non root XFree-4 Message-ID: <20011122093317.K23578@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>; from ronan@melim.com.br on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:23:56 -0800 References: <3BFD2C26.9080300@myrealbox.com> <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>
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On 2001.11.22 09:23 Ronan Lucio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD-4.4 + XFree-4_1 + Kde-2.2
> Everything works fine except for the XFree just works
> with root, when I do a startx by a normal user, it returns
> a error:
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf860OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
> You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
> We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!
>
> And my second problem is that the man doen´t works on
> console.
>
> Does anybody know what I´m doing wrong?
>
> []´s
>
> Ronan Lucio
> Melim Internet Provider
>
>
>
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As has been stated many, many times, one in your situation should
either: 1) setup xdm/kdm/gdm to start at boot; or 2) install the
Xwrapper port.
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