----- Forwarded message from Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net> ----- From: Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net> To: branden@debian.org Subject: Re: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common). Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:30:09 -0800 Delivered-To: branden@localhost.deadbeast.net Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net Organization: none X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] In-Reply-To: <00120720095300.12222@k7> Message-Id: <00120820300900.00940@k7> On Thursday 07 December 2000 20:09, I wrote: A little followup to my first email. I found the answer in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, which I'm sure you know already. The reason I was confused about the configuration of the Xwrapper is the file /etc/X11/Xserver, which contains these lines: ============================== /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody =============================== As you can see, this file implies that 'Console' is the parameter that was being used by X, when in fact it was reading the parameter 'Rootonly' from Xwrapper.config instead. So--is the file /etc/X11/Xserver an obsolete leftover? > 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> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux | then believe; if you wish to be a branden@deadbeast.net | devotee of truth, then inquire. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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