On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: <snip> > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. <snip> For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set to "anybody" Cheng