Once upon a time Kent West said... > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > >i am unable to start x from a screen session. > > > >it exits with a message 'user not authorized to run x server'. how can i > >remedy it? > > > >will i be opening a security hole if i overcome this problem? > > > Look at the "allowed users=" line in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. You > probably want it to look like: > > allowed_users=console
I would have thought that Sandip would need allowed_users=anybody since he is trying to run it from screen(1), which will just use a regular pty, not a virtual console, and you need to be running X from a virtual console if you have allowed_users=console. To reconfigure this parameter, you dont need to edit the Xwrapper file directly - instead run: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common Check out the man page for Xwrapper.config(5) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
