on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:12:13AM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2003 00:55, Joerg Johannes wrote:
>
> (snips)
>
> > You're right. But still it is non-intuitive that a regular user has not
> > the rights to "startx" by default. man "XF86Config" and "man startx"
> > won't tell you how to allow it to a normal user.
>
> Is this so? If I type 'startx' as me (non-root) then X won't start
> unless I go change some permissions? (presumably, having opened a
> console window from the X login and gone su root to do so)
If you're saying you can't start an X session as a nonprivileged user
from a terminal within an X session: this is as it should be.
The control for this is /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. The usual values are
'root', 'console', or 'anybody'. This file is part of the
xserver-common package, and can be configured with:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
> (I ask this because RedHat which I'm currently using does allow it by
> default.
RH's default configs should *not* be referred to as best practice. RH
is brain dead in numerous ways, internally inconsistant, and subject to
violent change from version to version.
> And I'm a *very* newbie since I just tried installing Debian,
> failed to quite get it working, and am back in RH while I plan my next
> attempt).
No problems. You've heard of chroot installs? You *can* have it both
ways:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall
Peace.
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