[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in a message from Monday 13)
> i have been getting this error message every time i try to start X as a regular
>user. I can only start the X server as root. I am using gnome and KDE as my
>managers.
You got something wrong when installing your X server and it doesn't
have the correct file modes. In order to be able to be started by a
normal user, the X server needs to be owned by root
and have the setuid bit, like this:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1740879 Sep 30 22:36 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
To fix the file modes run the following commands (as root):
chown root /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
Otherwise you can use xdm (or gdm or kdm from Gnome/KDE) to start the
X server as root during boot for you. This is the prefered solution if
you don't trust the X server enough to have it installed setuid.
Matthieu
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