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Re: Building a single user Internet terminal



On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:52:40 +0200
Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:47:38PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> 
> > > Also I have made this, only containing 'startx'.
> > > Now if I reboot, I see no X, but a message repeating:
> > > 
> > >   X: user not authorised to run the X server, aborting.
> 
> > The su -c command should change to a acceptable user. Interesting error.
> > If you change su -c /usr/local/bin/runkiosk kioskuser to su -c
> > /usr/local/bin/runkiosk root, does it work? (not that thats a solution,
> > just helps in locating the problem)
> 
> I did as you suggested and am now running successfully as root!
> As you said, not the best solution, but I do not understand why
> the userid kioskuser does not work...
> 
> Curious for any more thoughts...
> 
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what about a su command in .xsession ?


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