Hi Marshal! On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > >>>>> "Maury" == Maury Merkin <merkin@his.com> writes: > > > [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start > > X. I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me > > and, before I start groping around and resetting permissions > > helter skelter, I was wondering if anyone here might tell me the > > canonical way to do this under Debian. > > This is a problem that seems to pop up randomly on various systems and > I've never been able to figure it out except by reinstalling X. It's > kinda odd... hmm. Check your /etc/X11/Xserver file. It should look like this: >>> /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody <<<< Note that line numbers 1 and 2 are hardcoded. yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages prefered. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/
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