-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:45:34AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: >> hello >> >> After two years of Debianizing I decided to move to Sid. Upgrade went OK >> and everything worked well until I installed kdeutils. >> Since then I cannot start Xserver/KDE as a user. It doesn't work with >> KDM or startx. >> I can run Xserver/KDE as a root though. >> >> Does anyone know what went wrong or can point me to some direction of >> where to search for solution? >> >> Thanks, >> Mitja >> > > Users can't start an X server, only root can as far as I know.` > > Wrong. That would be a huge security hole. Users can't start xdm, but they can startx (if things are properly configured). Running X as root is a bad idea.
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