Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-26 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Hi, I have the same problem, but I have not understand the solution: wait for a new release of XWin or to change something in conf.? thank you. angelo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have the same problem, but I have not understand the solution: wait for a new release of XWin or to change something in conf.? I uploaded a new release which avoids setting the sticky bit on the directory. maybe you'll have to remove the old

Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-11 Thread Alan J. Flavell
We have encountered a problem when different non-admin users try to use Cygwin/X on the same Windows system (at different times, I mean). This is with a standard Cygwin/X installation, as far as I can tell, so I'm rather surprised by how little discussion I found of this in the archives.

Re: Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote: whose Subject is using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work (which is not exactly the problem that we are getting, since the *first* non-administrator has no problems starting Cygwin/X as many times as they want to - the problem is with the

Re: Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Woo
I guess in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat, they circumvent the problem by removing the .X11-unix directory at start: :CLEANUP-FINISH if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix P. Alan J. Flavell wrote: We have encountered a problem when different non-admin users try

Re: Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Chuck Theobald wrote: Interestingly, the suggestion that root needs to own /tmp/.X11-unix is impossible, as root is an invalid user. This is a message left over from the unix versions of Xorg. I'm just too lazy to go through the whole get a patch into the stable branch of