This is becoming a big time FAQ. Between 4.0.1-6 and 4.0.1-9 (inclusive), the X server wrapper was broken such that it would always use a security level of "Console", irrespective of what was set in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
Also, I think at some point there was debconf confusion that caused "rootonly" to get written to that file even if the user picked something else. The short answer: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common Finally, /etc/X11/Xserver is dead, dead, dead and not used for anything anymore. ----- Forwarded message from dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: xfree86 4.0.1-10 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:02:54 +0000 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i Organization: the kennel X-URL: http://www.dog.net.uk X-PGP: http://www.dog.net.uk/pgp X-Spam-Zero-Tolerance: you have been warned hi branden, upgrading from 4.0.1-8 to 4.0.1-10 i started having a problem running X as anything but root (user not authorised to run the X server). i've hacked around this temporarily by making /usr/X11R6/bin/X a symlink to XFree86 and XFree86 setuid root, but obviously this is not ideal. are users supposed to be members of some new group? -- dog ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know that music is a higher revelation [EMAIL PROTECTED] | than all wisdom and philosophy. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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