This is becoming a big time FAQ.
Between 4.0.1-6 and 4.0.1-9 (inclusive), the X server wrapper was broken
such that it would always use a security level of "Console", irrespective
of what was set in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
Also, I think at some point there was debconf confusion that caused
"rootonly" to get written to that file even if the user picked something
else.
The short answer: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
Finally, /etc/X11/Xserver is dead, dead, dead and not used for anything
anymore.
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hi branden,
upgrading from 4.0.1-8 to 4.0.1-10 i started having a problem running X as
anything but root (user not authorised to run the X server). i've hacked
around this temporarily by making /usr/X11R6/bin/X a symlink to XFree86 and
XFree86 setuid root, but obviously this is not ideal. are users supposed to
be members of some new group?
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