Bug#372687: Ordinary user can't start xorg

[Jack Carroll <mykrowatt@comcast.net>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:54:04PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:26:03AM -0400, Jack Carroll wrote:
> > Package: xorg
> > Version: 1:7.0.20
> > 
> > 	Under Etch, an ordinary user can't start the windowing system.
> > 	In this test, /etc/rc2.d has been edited so that it doesn't start
> > gdm at boot time.
> > 	The user "anna" logs in and issues the command
> > 		startx
> > 	The result is shown below.
> > 	This creates a problem for hosts such as servers, where the
> > windowing system is needed only occasionally.  Security would be compromised
> > by giving an ordinary user the root passwork just to turn on the windowing
> > system.
> 
> Does running 'dpkg-reconfigure x11-common' as root fix the problem for you?
> This may be something that was fixed in the last upload of the xorg source
> package to unstable.
> 
>  - David Nusinow



	That fixed it.