From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 7: 0:48 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 D87ED37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3095843E42 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E49EA78D; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D32A6B7; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GDM From: Steve Wingate To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Akthar Hussain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 17 Jul 2002 07:00:42 -0700 Message-Id: <1026914442.291.0.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: > [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. > -- Why would a normal user even NEED to start xdm/gdm/xdm in the first place? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message