From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 20:36: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADEF37B55A for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA62601; Wed, 17 May 2000 23:35:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:35:52 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Gary Rafe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0 Message-ID: <20000517233552.A62582@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200005172204.e4HM4Ch09334@lab12.ie.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005172204.e4HM4Ch09334@lab12.ie.pitt.edu>; from grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:04:12PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:04:12PM -0400, Gary Rafe wrote: > I noticed this behavior, too, of xinit and Xwrapper > last night just after I upgraded from 3.3R/PAO to 4.0R via CDROM > on my Toshiba 4030CDT notebook: > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > The server runs just fine when it's made suid. > > Can someone comment on/document the proper PAM configuration > on a 4.0R system for X to run with the correct authorizations ? IIRC, when I looked in the source when I had this problem, X is looking for a pam_console.so module. This does not exist on a FreeBSD install. I think I found some source for pam_console, but it was Linux specific. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message