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Re: Building a single user Internet terminal



On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:52, Erik van der Meulen 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...

We should be able to get it running at a user level.

What does your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config say? Try changing
allowed_users=console to allowed_users=anybody
Change the su command back to the kioskuser.

Does that work?

Kind Regards
Crispin Wellington


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