Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:17:33 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Jonathan Lyster <jslyster@operamail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 woes Message-ID: <20010922111733.A94271@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <200109211443.f8LEhhi26926@clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com>; from jslyster@operamail.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:49:45AM -0400 References: <200109211443.f8LEhhi26926@clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com>
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:49:45AM -0400, Jonathan Lyster wrote: > My problem is this: whenever I enter my root account this way and then try launching kedit or kcontrol, I > run into problems. No application will run this way--launched from a terminal that has been "su"ed to > access the root account. They worked fine when launched this way in XFree86-3.3.6, but not in version > 4.0.3. There must have been something wrong with your 3.3.6 setup, then, or perhaps you were using startx instead of kdm? What's happening is that when you use kdm (or even xdm), the server is put into a more secure mode, where connections are refused if clients can't supply the session cookie or whatever. If you "su -m", to inherit your old shell's environment, or use sudo (which generally does the same thing), then you'll find that X stuff continues to work. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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