Re: X not allowed by user other than root

["Carlo U. Segre" <segre@charlie.acc.iit.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Stephen Early wrote:

> 
> Ah. It's a problem with fvwm. Do you have strange permissions set on 
> /tmp? /tmp should be owned by root.root, with mode 1777 (drwxrwxrwt).
> 

Bingo!  The permissions were 1755.  Changing them fixed the problem.  I 
am mysified how the permissions were set wrong in the first place...

Thanks!

Carlo



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