On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:52:24PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -----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. >
Ah, excuse my nubishness again. Like I've said in the past I'm pretty new to Debian so I may be wrong on a few points (Maybe I should put that in my signature?). Anyway, OP, why don't you start KDM at boot time unless you really need a full screen terminal or don't want KDM starting for some reason (I'm just making a suggestion, not asking you to change your ways) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
