Re: x windows only allows root??
john smith wrote: hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? hoping for some kind of clue. thanks. Can non-root users log into the console? Have you done any mucking around with permissions or anything that would affect permissions? I had these symtoms on two seperate occasions. One was when I moved the HOME directories for non root users to a place they didn't have read/write permission. The other was when I screwed up using an admin tools and expired all the non-root logins. You might consider making a new user account and seeing if the new login has the same problem as the old.
Re: x windows only allows root??
:: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:53:03 -0500, Lee Malatesta [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I had that problem, and I just found out that in my .xsession file I was calling a window manager that I don have installed... J. john smith wrote: hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? hoping for some kind of clue. thanks. Can non-root users log into the console? Have you done any mucking around with permissions or anything that would affect permissions? I had these symtoms on two seperate occasions. One was when I moved the HOME directories for non root users to a place they didn't have read/write permission. The other was when I screwed up using an admin tools and expired all the non-root logins. You might consider making a new user account and seeing if the new login has the same problem as the old. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x windows only allows root??
john smith wrote (on 26 Mar 00, at 23:27): hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? I had this symptom recently. Somehow my /dev/null permissions had got changed so that xrdb couldn't read from it except as root. chmod 666 /dev/null fixed it. Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: x windows only allows root??
hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? i achived locking out normal users by chmod-ing /tmp or /var/tmp (it's the same on my system) to 700 or ... very effective :-) the correct permissions for tmp-dirs are 1777 -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: x windows only allows root??
You should check that your filesystem is not full, particularly your /var Jonas Anderson
Re: x windows only allows root??
See other followups as well. Check your .xession-errors file (usually in $HOME). Log on to console as non-root user and execute: startx -- 21 | tee ~/startx.log You should get a stream of messages, including possibly an indication of your error, on screen. If they fly by too fast, you will find them as well in the file ~/startx.log. I avoid use of an X display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm, wdm, etc.) -- it's a cool screen I look at for five seconds, it requires an X server when I'm not running X, and causes (or obscures) problems. Maybe OK for a general office workstation, but a PITA for a serious Linux box. On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:27:58PM +, john smith wrote: hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? hoping for some kind of clue. thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
