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Re: startx not for normal user?



On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm,
> the latter seems to work..  But I still don't understand why I am not
> allowed to run startx.  I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console,
> which seems to imply anybody on the console is allowed to run X.

If this is X 4 we're talking about, then /etc/X11/Xserver is not used.
See instead /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config for a line like
	
	allowed_users=console

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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