From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 23:10:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92AD37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20CF43E58 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6H6A6GU086406; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:10:06 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6H6A6aJ086405; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:10:06 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:10:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Akthar Hussain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDM Message-ID: <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:29:58AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > Hi , > > I am unable to start KDM in my Freebsd 4.5 as normal user. > the /var/log/kdm.log error reports that "Only root wants to run KDM" > > > Any one can let me know what I have to do , to run kdm as ordinary users. You can't run kdm as a normal user. It must run as root. Once you've got kdm running, you can _LOG_ _IN_ as a normal user. To get kdm running, you can have a startup script, or tweak the entry for ttyv8 in /etc/ttys -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message