From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 23:21: 5 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 9365E37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B335643E31 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:21:02 -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 g6H6L1GU086496; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:21:01 +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 g6H6L1R5086495; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:21:01 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:21:01 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Akthar Hussain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> 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 [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for your reply. > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible. Are you sure about this? In order to validate passwords, the program needs to be able to acess master.passwd, readable only by root. Even the stock-standard xdm needs to be started up as root. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message