Anant wrote: > > Yet again, the same exact problem I had. So far I have only been able > to fix this by running xdm and logging in from there. Does anyone know > a solution so you can actually "startx" as a non-root user? This also > looks like its becoming a FreeBSD-specific problem . . . [...] > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "lute.willinet.net:0" in "add" command > > Fatal server error: > Can not open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > So this is all I can give you at this time. When checking the log file > all I get is the info from the last root session.
It's a security thing. You don't want something as big and complex as the X server to run setuid. There's a little thing called (I think) Xwrapper that's setuid that does what's necessary as root then launches the Xserver with user privileges. I've always used xdm, so I'm a bit vague about the details. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
