From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 14:12:36 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 B6DC437B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5481243E6A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (lan08.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6NKvxR04674; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:57:59 -0700 Message-ID: <00b101c2328d$a91fdb50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "Thomas Connolly" , "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" References: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A2133@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> Subject: Re: X only works with root Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:12:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 You might want to check the ownership of the user you want to log in as. Do "ls -la /home/user" to check. Then do "chown -R user:user /home/user" to allow said user access to the dir. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Connolly" To: "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: X only works with root > Hello, > I'm a newbie and I can't seem to get my X Server working with any other > users besides root. This is probably a permissions issue. Can someone > offer some help here? > > Thanks, > > Tom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message