From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 7: 3:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B23137B566 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 07:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otter@otter.cc) Received: from otter.cc (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA07136; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 07:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38E75352.D1FB719C@otter.cc> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 10:04:02 -0400 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: heads up on adduser and X References: <200004020252.SAA16148@tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote: > > Awhile ago I asked this list for any insight about why I couldn't bring > up X on some ~test accounts that I set up weeks ago. No response so > I rolled up my sleeves and here is what I discovered. > > Be careful about choosing options when you use the adduser script. > Rather than simply choose the defaults, I chose and the group > ``wheel'' which caused permission problem with xdm or startx. When > I modified the passwd and group files to : X was much > happier. > > Hope this saves a few others some head-scratching... ! > > gary kline I'm in the system as a member of "wheel" group and I have never had problems with permissions of xdm or startx. I've never had those problems with a 2.2.x or any 3.x release. I'm running 5.0 now... still running smoothly. Do you have XF86 4 installed? I'm still on 3.3.6. I'm curious to hear why this is a problem for you. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message