Re: Can only run X as root

[Frank Barknecht <barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>]

George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote:

> Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root.  I've read manpages
> and howto's until my eyes have crossed.
> 
> When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. 
> If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol.
> 
> I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x.  I know I've
> overlooked something small.  After the bazzillionth time trying this I'm
> half way there.

X should be suid root and look like:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root         4880 Jun 23 23:46 /usr/bin/X11/X
   ^ important

Something must have messed up your setup, maybe you could try to set X back
with a

chmod -v 4755 /usr/bin/X11/X

as root.
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