-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco,
With reference to your great message on below, RvtV> Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, RvtV> the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not RvtV> allowed to run startx. I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console, RvtV> which seems to imply anybody on the console is allowed to run X. RvtV> I am sorry about replying to my own post.. Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x :-) regards, evil RvtV> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 18:04, Remco van 't Veer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just installed Debian on a fresh workstation but only root can open >> a X session. First I tried startx using a normal user but it >> complains: >> >> xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. >> You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. >> We strongly advice against make the server SUID! >> >> I am unable to find Xwrapper and xdm doesn't let me login. Xdm >> restarts immediately after I type my password. The logfile xdm.log >> reads: >> >> AUDIT: Mon Sep 3 16:00:00 2001: 599 X: client 2 rejected from local host >> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> .. >> >> I removed the .Xauthority file, but that does not help. Does anybody >> know how I can fix this? >> >> TIA, >> Remco - -- echo 1 > /dev/null -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5OuC6dYxxvLMsVbAQE3iAQApBSnslJys9y6AG3TDWDty8NigwIlH+tk urrvA+QX/DE0evKzCxvu9dDx8j+4ZAZspkyAtlAYPSrTUOWto171K3nwPgtU/luA oi5o1oIeTrDtNjk5Av376vEWpE3acRoXWeOLWG/P9ZSXzV84w0kyK4si+t9OqYPz DbAdL2cWj8U= =AV4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
