On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:59:08PM +1100, Michael Covi uttered:
> Define a sudo for startx ?
>
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ummm, no.
Look for your Xwrapper.config:
steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
You may have something else in there such as 'allowed_users=root' or something.
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Scott Ragen wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:42:04 +1100
> > From: Scott Ragen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [SLUG] Xfree User Problems
> >
> > I try to login as a normal user into xfree, by typing either startx or X and
> > I get an error message of: Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> >
> > Only root can start XFree.
> > How do I assign Console Ownership/permissions to other users?
> > Oh I run Red hat 7.0 with XFree86 version 4.0.1a
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > --
> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
> >
>
>
> --
> SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
>
--
Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
--Me
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
