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[wsheets@att.net: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common).]



----- Forwarded message from Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net> -----

From: Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net>
To: branden@debian.org
Subject: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common).
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:09:53 -0800
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Hi Branden,

With yesterday's update of xserver-common_4.01-10_i386
I can no longer run X with startx, which I always do.  

It yields the error message "X: user not authorized to run the X server,
aborting."

I have narrrowed the change down to the one file /usr/X11R6/bin/X
which is packaged in xserver-common.  If I replace that one file
with the previous version (4.01-9) the error goes away.

Is this a deliberate change in authentication policy or just a bug?
If it is deliberate I need to know how to do the authentication
properly.

Thanks for sharing your time and hard work with all of us out here!

Walt
<wsheets@att.net>

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