From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 08:43:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21071 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme57.sunshine.net [209.17.178.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21044 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01663; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:44:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: "Anthony E. Coley" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help xinit? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980514074344.007c1ae0@sohopros.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Anthony E. Coley wrote: => What do I need to do to be able to run startx while not logged in => as root? I am unable to start an X session while logged in as => a regular user. Version 3.3.2 ? =============== I installed the source, read /usr/X11R6/src/xc/INSTALL.TXT, /usr/X11R6/src/xc/config/cf/FreeBSD.cf, read and applied the recent patch to XFree86, and edited the /usr/X11R6/src/xc/config/cf/site.def. [snip] #define InstallXserverSetUID NO Then I followed the instructions to rebuild. I don't think I missed anything another than the fact I rebuilt after reading in the FreeBSD.cf that I should make sure that the proper "tcl" and "tk" pkg's should be installed before building. Nothing is a replacment for reading before starting:) NOTE: The build will change the symbolic link from /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. Kevin G. Eliuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message