Actually, I have seen this too, are you logged in as root and then su to
a user or vice-versa? As with the su comments going through the lists,
when you su, you do not get full ownership of everything. Hope this
helps.
Robert Soros wrote:
>
> What version of redhat do you have ? This could possibly be a PAM
> problem dealing with authentication.
>
> take at a look at your /etc/pam.d/xserver file and it might read
> something like this
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
> auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so
> account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so
>
>
> change it so it reads..
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so
> auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so
>
>
> this should bypass any *Strict* authenication required by pam, as long
> as you've got an account..
>
> if this doens't work, let me know
>
> > Hi, there:
> > I have a question about my X server: when I logon with
> > my username and type startx it give the following
> > error message:
> > Authenticaiton failed _ cannnot connet to X server
> > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > (after 30 seconds stop):
> > giving up.
> > cannot Connect to X server(errno=111)
> > have no such process (errno=3).
> > However, when I logon in with the root, it works.
> > Also I have check the files /usr/X11R6/bin/X with the
> > mode lrwxrwxrwx and the file /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit with
> > the mode: rwxr-xr- and the file
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper with the mode -rws--x--x.
> > Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
> >
> > THanks
> >
> > Nianwei
> >
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