Re: X on latest potato?
Huh? I have run X as normal user for years via startx. This worked
as always on sparc64 until apt-get upgrade a few days ago. I should
not have to run xdm. I should also not need to be root to run X as
the /usr/bin/X11/X suid wrapper takes care things for normal user.
My /etc/X11/Xserver contains:
/usr/bin/X11/Xsun24
Console
This should permit anyone logged in at the console to run X. Have
I missed something?
Regards,
Rich
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Sergio Mendoza wrote:
> -> It turns out there was a little more to this than just a symlink
> -> for /dev/fb to /dev/fb0. In my case, /dev/fb0 somehow had perms
> ->
> -> crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Mar 30 22:46 /dev/fb0
>
> This looks correct to me, it should be like that, shouldn't it?
>
> ->
> -> so running X as root worked fine after the symlink but still
> -> failed for normal user. Once I added the user to group tty and
> -> added read to the group perms X starts fine for normal user.
>
> I think that you were trying to run X as a normal user, which by default
> should not happen. You can overwrite the default by adding "Anybody"
> after the line which says /usr/bin/X11/X-something in your
> /etc/X11/Xserver file. However, you are at risk here! A better option is
> to run xdm and let X to be run only by root.
>
> Sergio.
>
>
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