:: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:53:03 -0500, Lee Malatesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I had that problem, and I just found out that in my .xsession file I was calling a window manager that I don have installed... J. > john smith wrote: >> hello, >> I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x >> windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root >> account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login >> prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? >> >> hoping for some kind of clue. thanks. > Can non-root users log into the console? > Have you done any mucking around with permissions or anything that would > affect permissions? > I had these symtoms on two seperate occasions. One was when I moved the > HOME directories for non root users to a place they didn't have > read/write permission. The other was when I screwed up using an admin > tools and expired all the non-root logins. > You might consider making a new user account and seeing if the new login > has the same problem as the old. > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
