Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:19:54 -0500 From: <mikenoc@mindspring.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: x windows fatal server error when not root. Message-ID: <Springmail.105.1011251994.0.37927100@springmail.com>
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Hello,
When I am root I can run x windows fine but when I am not root I get the following error. How could I go about fixing this ?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
frogger# uname -a
FreeBSD frogger.nuggie.net 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Wed Jan 16 20:09:57 EST 2002 root@frogger.nuggie.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FROGGER i386
frogger#
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "frogger.nuggie.net:0" in "remove" command
su-2.04$
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