On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 19:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I connected a monitor and keyboard and could start it with startx > and logged in as root, got an xfce desktop and went from there but as > I said, it has to be as root. It would allow me to create new users > but they could not do anything ...
I'd seen that kind of thing, in the past, when /tmp didn't have the right permissions. $ ls -dl /tmp drwxrwxrwt. 22 root root 4096 Jun 27 09:11 /tmp Without that sticky bit (t) on the end, X couldn't create the files it needed as users logged in. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 23 15:46:38 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
