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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:00:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Gustavo Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X11
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0001051856430.17357-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001052246340.61332-100000@vitoria.ddsecurity.com.br>

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You have two choices at least.  Recompile X and answer no to the
question about whether you want PAM support or not.  Or add a line
like this to /etc/pam.conf.

xserver auth sufficient pam_permit.so no_use

You will need to put it after all the 'login' entries but before the
'other' entries.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gustavo Rios wrote:

# Hi folks!
# i am trying to get X working but all i get is trouble, when i type startx
# into the console i have this:
# 
# etosha# startx
# 
# Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
# Perhaps you do not have console ownership?^Cxinit:  unexpected signal 2
# 
# /var/log/messages show me this:
# Jan  5 22:49:19 etosha Xwrapper: no modules loaded for `xserver' service
# 
# 
# I am running X 3.3.5! May you help me with this ?
# My uname -a output is:
# 
# FreeBSD etosha 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Wed Jan  5 13:43:01 EDT
# 2000 root@etosha:/usr/src/sys/compile/ETOSHA  i386
# 
# 
# Thank you for your time and cooperation.
# best regards,
# 	Gustavo Rios
# 
# 
# --
# The thing i like most about Windows is ....
# You can download FreeBSD with it!



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