I have a couple of diskless workstations set up that use an NFS server for their root filesystems. I recently upgraded to Red Hat 7.1 from 7.0. On these PCs, I find that I can no longer start X as a non-root user. The X server (XFree86_SVGA, since I use an old SIS 6326 chipset) would start and just sit there. On the console screen, it would just sort of hang and print dots before giving up with: giving up. xinit: Permission denied (errno 13): unable to connect to X server waiting for X server to shut down. xinit: Server error. X works fine as root, or on a conventional PC that does not NFS-mount its root filesystem. Previously in Red Hat 7.0, I worked around this problem by adding the line: auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so to /etc/pam.d/xserver. This little hack no longer works in 7.1, however. Does anyone have suggestions on where I should be looking for permissions issues? Back in the lpr-oldgeneration days, lpr could not work on an NFS-mounted filesystem either. It would release privileges after opening files, but NFS checks permissions on each access, not just when the file is open. Could a similar issue be at work here? LPRng, incidently, does not have this issue because the client does not write files. Chris _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
