From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 13:57:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DE2737B41F for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3090 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2002 20:54:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 21 Jun 2002 20:54:25 -0000 Received: (from roman@localhost) by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5LKxqo58575; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:59:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: freepuppy.bellavista.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@bellavista.cz using -f Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:59:52 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: twig les Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting X as non-root Message-ID: <20020621205952.GA10684@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: twig les , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020621202821.38789.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020621202821.38789.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:28:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: twig les > Subject: starting X as non-root > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hey all, I've run into this before and found a > solution but would like to try another way.... > > I have configured X and can run it as root, but if I'm > a different user (in wheel even) I can't. I'll paste > my XFree86.0.log at the end. I'm sure this is normal > since the error says X has to be suid root. However I > don't know how to set this up manually and would like > to know. Previously I have solved this by simply > going through the install process again and making > sure I configure X during the initial install instead > of a post-configure. > > So my question is, how do I configure this? I will > gladly RTFM if someone has one. # (cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper && make install clean) -- FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 10:59PM up 18 days, 12:48, 13 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.05 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message