Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:18:07 -0500 From: "Dustin" <dustin@marsik.org> To: <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Running X under non-root Message-ID: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC69303E6B7@FF01.marsik.org>
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Exactly right, that's what I'm trying to do. So I tried the install, but apparently, wrapper-1.0_2 is already installed. Any other ideas? ~Dustin -----Original Message----- From: Eric Anholt [mailto:eta@lclark.edu]=20 Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 7:58 PM To: Dustin Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running X under non-root On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:42, Dustin wrote: > Hello, >=20 > 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=20 > KDE running, but when I couldn't get the Nmap GUI to run under K, I=20 > removed it and installed Gnome. Is there something specific linked to > this user that is trying to run KDE, and not Gnome? >=20 > 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. --=20 Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu =20 http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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