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From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:42, Dustin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD 4.8, XFree86 and Gnome are working well under
> root, but I cannot get into X using a normal user.  I originally had KDE
> running, but when I couldn't get the Nmap GUI to run under K, I removed
> it and installed Gnome.  Is there something specific linked to this user
> that is trying to run KDE, and not Gnome?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

It;s not really clear to me, but it sounds like you're asking, "What do
I have to do to let normal users run startx."  You need to install
x11/wrapper from ports, which is a setuid wrapper program for the X
server.

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Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org