Russell said: > Hi all, > > I installed X and used it as root until things were working. > Now i want to add non-root users which means handling login > and passwords etc. I've installed xdm, but the config looks > complicated. Can someone please give a rough guide to follow > in setting this up?
apt-get install xdm .. no configuration needed. unless you have some kind of unusual setup ? e.g. I use KDM on my systems and to use LDAP authentication I have to edit /etc/pam.d/kdm so it loads the ldap module.. you don't need a display manager(kdm/gdm/xdm/etc) to allow non root users to use X, check out /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, mine says: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved by # debconf. Instead, make changes after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line. allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 ### END DEBCONF SECTION that means that a user on the console should be able to run 'startx' and have X load. if yours says something else, you should probably use debconf to change it(if yours has the same DEBCONF stuff), or you could probably just remove all the commented lines and debconf may ignore that file in the future. I don't know what package maintains that file so I can't say how to call debconf to reconfigure it(perhaps dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common but thats a guess). if you do not have a Xwrapper.config, you can create it and put those values in it, and the system should take it. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
