On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:28, ABrady wrote: > On 09 Dec 2002 15:38:41, gregory mott wrote: > > how do i allow non-root users to launch an additional X session in a > > virtual terminal? (rh7.3) > > > > root can do it like so: > > xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 > > > > but if any other user tries, she gets: > > Fatal server error: > > PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server. > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > startx -- :1 > Works here.
are you at rh7.3? here, that works for root, but not others. last time i knew this to work, i was using rh7.1u2 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list