On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:11:08PM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> 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.
Of course, the right answer is "xdm". startx was never the way X
was "meant" to be run, a bunch of X-authority security measures
are disabled when you do that.
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