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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:08:43 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regarding X windows
Message-ID:  <20010130190843.V54217@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <652569E4.003A2267.00@Vashimail.ltitl.com>; from Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:04:58PM %2B0530
References:  <652569E4.003A2267.00@Vashimail.ltitl.com>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:04:58PM +0530, Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl=
.com wrote:
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Hi!
> Everybody,
>=20
> i had installed X windows in 4.2Release FreeBSD, when i use startx comman=
d as
> root user my X server works,
> but when i use startx command as normal user it fails to start saying
>=20
>=20
>                       Fatal server error:
>                       xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
>=20
>=20
> when i see log file in /var/log it gives shows same error. i have changed
> permissions of /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> becuase it had root ownership. pl help me on this topic since i want norm=
al
> users to use X windows

Install the Xwrapper port, or start X using xdm or a similar utility
at boot time.

Kris

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