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Re: adduser - X access?



On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:10:29 -0500, Rich <rehartma@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:

> Howdy all,
> 
> This is probably a very simple mistake which I am overlooking but I
> cannot 
> find any info - I've added the user"guest" to my home machine so that my
> in-laws can access the internet during the day whilst watching the 
> grandkid.... I was going to set up their X Window session that the only
> icons 
> visible were "pon/poff" and "konqueror" - however, I can't even get into
> X as 
> guest... is this a "group" issue? WDM just flashes to the X-screen
> briefly 
> and then back to WDM. Any other issues to make sure that all they can do
> is 
> connect to the net and save files to their own home directory?

Can you log in as guest at the console?  Does "guest" have a home 
directory?  Is your X configured properly (so an ~/.xsession isn't
required)?  Mostly sounds like WDM gets an error trying to start
a session for the user.  So, what does /usr/bin/x-window-manager
point to?


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



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