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



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