On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: > [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible. > > Are you sure about this? In order to validate passwords, the program > needs to be able to acess master.passwd, readable only by root. Even > the stock-standard xdm needs to be started up as root. > --
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