Re: x windows only allows root??

["Tony Crawford" <tc@crawfords.de>]

john smith wrote (on 26 Mar 00, at 23:27):

> hello,
>   I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x 
> windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root 
> account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login 
> prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something?

I had this symptom recently. Somehow my /dev/null permissions had got 
changed so that xrdb couldn't read from it except as root. chmod 666 
/dev/null fixed it.

Tony

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