Package: xserver-common Version: 4.2.1-7 Severity: wishlist
So, i try to run XFree86 after a woody-to-sid dist-upgrade. Instead of getting the usal X startup, though, I get a message like "user is not allowed to run the X server". After an strace, I find out there's a particular configuation directive in /etc/Xwrapper.config, which really boggles me -- namely, the "allowed_users" directive. If you want to control "who gets to run an application?", why do you not use plain user/group privelages? Here's a simple solution. It works with SuSE, like this; it would work with Debian. addgroup --system xok chgrp xok /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 chmod o-x /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ...then, simply enough, add any user, to the 'xok' group, who needs to run the x server. problem solved. for this, there's no /etc/Xwrapper.config needed. cheers --- sean -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tokamak.homeunix.net 2.4.21-rc6-xfs #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 05:43:09 PDT 2003 i586 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xserver-common depends on: ii debconf 1.2.39 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xfree86-common 4.2.1-7 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
