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From: Aaron Mildenstein <aaronm@orem.verio.net>
To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: non root XFree-4
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Xwrapper, being located in /usr/ports/x11/wrapper


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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:

> On 2001.11.22 09:23 Ronan Lucio wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed FreeBSD-4.4 + XFree-4_1 + Kde-2.2
> > Everything works fine except for the XFree just works
> > with root, when I do a startx by a normal user, it returns
> > a error:
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > xf860OpenConsole: 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!
> >
> > And my second problem is that the man doen=B4t works on
> > console.
> >
> > Does anybody know what I=B4m doing wrong?
> >
> > []=B4s
> >
> > Ronan Lucio
> > Melim Internet Provider
> >
> >
> >
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> As has been stated many, many times, one in your situation should
> either:  1) setup xdm/kdm/gdm to start at boot; or 2) install the
> Xwrapper port.
>
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