From: the scorched gremlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1 user can't start X windows under 3.7. I tracked this down to using > zsh instead of something else like ksh. as I'm not from an X > background I am lost on figuring out where to start looking, or what > to change. RTFMs would be welcome. > > XDM is started from /etc/rc as usual with no flags, GENERIC > kernel in use. > > the error as reported in authlog: > Jul 2 14:57:01 mercury xdm: LOGIN FAILURE ON :0 > > /etc/shells: > # $OpenBSD: shells,v 1.5 1997/05/28 21:42:20 deraadt Exp $ > [snip...] > /usr/local/bin/zsh > > Xorg.0.log has nothing useful, nor xdm.log. > > are there any other places I could check?
Have you verified specifically that this user *can* log in to xdm when they have another shell set? One other place you could look is at the user's ~/.z* files, the profile and such that initialize zsh at login. Maybe something will stick out there... DS
