Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:21:01 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Akthar Hussain <ahussain_fbsd@msn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <20020717062101.GA86468@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <DAV62gYVIOU3vwcajoV0001387c@hotmail.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20020709225959.007d4db0@sundsu1.deltast.edu> <DAV77tjWAaRPYTHhM5C00013732@hotmail.com> <20020717061006.GA86363@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <DAV62gYVIOU3vwcajoV0001387c@hotmail.com>
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[Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for your reply. > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible. Are you sure about this? In order to validate passwords, the program needs to be able to acess master.passwd, readable only by root. Even the stock-standard xdm needs to be started up as root. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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