From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 22:41:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337B337B65E for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from ppp141.WORLDY.COM (ppp141.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.192]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA20394; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:41:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:40:14 +0000 (GMT) From: David Banning X-Sender: tracker@tracker To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X failure - through startx In-Reply-To: <20000411233903.C31270@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:12:08PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > > following the installation of kde11 I get the following error when > > trying to execute startx; > > > > Authentication failed - Cannot start X server. > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > > > Any pointers would be helpful. I wonder if permission plays a > > part here. I noticed during the installation of kde11 the > > make install was chmod'ing alot of 444's - that seems awfully restrictive. > > Sounds like XFree86 was built with PAM support. Indeed it was. I just found the answer on the mailing list archives. IT WAS YOU who answered the person's question then too. Sorry I didn't do my homework before posting. Thanks again Crist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message