From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 9:22:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B4D37B404 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 09:22:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kim.fairhaven.za.net (s1-gw-177.dial-up.net [196.39.104.177]) by mercury.is.co.za (Postfix) with SMTP id B5F981FD96 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 18:22:35 +0200 (SAST) Received: from 192.168.0.2 ([192.168.0.2]) by kim.fairhaven.za.net (602Pro LAN SUITE v. 2000A) id 2b0fac89 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:09:13 +0200 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:21:11 +0200 From: angus Robinson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root permissions Message-Id: <20020519182111.3f703438.angus@unix.za.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5 (GTK+ 1.2.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 when i startx, i have to start it as root or Xwrapper and i want to change that so i can start it as a user how do i do that (and i dont want to do the suid thing coz its insucure) ta angus -- you can lead a horse to a unix, but you cant make him login When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message