On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, > the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not > allowed to run startx. I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console, > which seems to imply anybody on the console is allowed to run X.
If this is X 4 we're talking about, then /etc/X11/Xserver is not used. See instead /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config for a line like allowed_users=console -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>