Actually, won't help to create a user as part of wheel group, having admin rights and using just sudo or doas? Can'r wait to install it... Last time, I did not had such problems... but it was a different computer...
Thanks for the movie, Fred. On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:13 AM Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fred, > > you wrote on Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:37:44 +0000: > > > Note that with NetBSD using the "su" command in a Xorg terminal will > > destroy the pam config (for login+password). And you will not be able to > > login anymore (and must reinstall all the system). > > Ihat's a really _very_ bad thing... > > > So for all the things you need a root access, terminate the Xorg session > > to come back to terminal-no-gui, login as normal user, then use the "su" > > command to do the things that need root access. > > Does NetBSD's Xorg NOT have the LeftAlt-Ctrl-F<n> hot key function to > switch to a text mode console? Or is that just disabled by default, as > many Linux Xorg/Gooey^WGUI installations do it by now, somewhere setting > a "ServerFlags" section 'Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"'? > > (There's a program, "chvt", that can do the switch too, but that requires > root rights to be used, so it's useless here.) > > Creating a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file with just the contents > "Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontVTSwitch" "true" > EndSection" > _might_ suffice, but it may neccessary to also include a line like > ' Option "ServerLayout" "X.org Configured"' > for Xorg to accept it. > > Be sure to scan Xorg's log file (Xorg.0.log) whether it had the intended > effect or just rose a warning or an error. Read the Xorg man page! > > > Or do this after boot, before to run "startx" command. > > You do not want to (re)boot a Unix for maintenance purposes only! Do you? > > (Ooops, THAT was looong-winded thread!) > > -- > (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung > nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mseide-msegui-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk > -- Vasi
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