From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 23 12:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A44EB37B426 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 93403 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2002 19:51:41 -0000 Received: from pd9005895.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO laptop) (217.0.88.149) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2002 19:51:41 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.0.88.149 Message-ID: <004101c1eb00$45240380$0901a8c0@system> From: "Tom Beer" To: "Shantanu" , References: <3CC5B584.D363F602@ieee.org> Subject: Re: X Window problem Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:51:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I qoute your message: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: 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! Make it suid or use Xwrapper Greets Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message