Hi there! On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:27:32 +0100, e.waelde wrote: > the wiki page at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian
Without reiterating what I posted at http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-November/000371.html > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Howto: Running X as a normal user > > Slight changes, when X is started via /etc/init.d/nodm > > 1. Create a new user > > # NAME=<user_name> > # useradd -m -G audio,dialout,floppy,video,staff ${NAME} While useradd is provided in Debian as well, the advised tool to be used on Debian is adduser, simply because "[adduser and addgroup] are friendlier front ends to the low level tools like useradd, groupadd and usermod programs, by default choosing Debian policy conformant UID and GID values" (from `man adduser`). > # passwd ${NAME} This is already asked by adduser. > 4. Edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > > -allowed_users=console > +allowed_users=anybody IIRC this should not be needed, i.e. nodm should already take care of everything with the default /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (as the other *DM packages do). Do you mind opening a bug in the Debian BTS, so we do no forget it? > 5. Make apm setuid root > so that zhone can do suspend and make it only executable for > users in the staff group > > # dpkg-statoverride --update --add root staff 4750 /usr/bin/apm If I have understood correctly Michael, this will not be needed anymore when fso-apm will be available http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/121 Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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