On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I posted previously about not being able to get xdm to work so a user
> other than root could use X. I've basically given up on that route because
> it seemed that the problem I was having with xdm was to difficult to solve.
> Now I would just like to get X usable by another user perhaps through a
> different way. I looked for Xwrapper in the packages section on the Debian
> site and couldn't find it. Where can I find Xwrapper, or is there another
> way that I can get X working for non root users?
>
> Any help or ideas welcome, I'm pretty frustrated
>
> Ian
> p.s. just in case someone recognizes this xdm error message and knows how
> to solve it, here it is again:
>
> AUDIT: Sun Oct 14 17:21:34 2001: 251 X: client 2 rejected from local host
> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
>
> When logging in, xdm blinks off and then back on again, asking the user,
> including root, to log in again.
>
To close this thread...
I uninstalled xdm and installed wdm. It worked correctly right after
installation. I'm now able to login as a non root user to X. The strange
thing is that the file's created by wdm look identical to the ones created
by xdm. If I have some time later on, I'll reinstall xdm and run some diffs
on the default config files in /etc/X11/xdm and see if there are any
differences. The simple joys of GNU/Linux.
Ian
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