From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 8:22:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0180637B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB9GI2926633; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:18:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C139068.4050209@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 11:25:12 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kdm op 4.4-R References: <3C138D81.80001@skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Is the user you're doing this as a member of the "wheel" group? In FreeBSD only users who are a member of the wheel group may escalate their rights to root with su. If you run a terminal and attempt to su at a sh prompt, you'll get an error if you're not in the right group. Add the user in question to the wheel group and things should start working. Raf Schietekat wrote: > Dear experts, > > (I'm new to FreeBSD, but used to run NEXTSTEP a while ago. I recently > installed FreeBSD 4.4-R on an i386 system.) > > If I change /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm to /usr/local/bin/kdmdesktop, I get an > ordinary shell with messages like (date omitted): > "desktop init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping > 30 secs" > What do I have to do to get kdm running? I don't find anything in the > provided KDE documentation. > > I also can't run kcontrol from a terminal after I've become root (in any > environment), nor does Control Center>System>Login Manager>Modify>Run as > root succeed, nor does Clock>Adjust Date & Time>Run as root > ("Conversation with su failed.", "BAD SU rfschtkt to root on /dev/ttyp6"). > > Help? > > Raf Schietekat > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message