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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:24:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: non root XFree-4 
Message-ID:  <20011123182249.S37220-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br>

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, 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?

    You didn't RTFM.

    cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper
    make install

    s/X/Xwrapper/ in your .xserverrc.

-- 
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer                   (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.


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