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rov
01-14-2001, 11:49 AM
I just did an apt-get upgrade last night, it installed a new xserver or something, and this morning I can't use X in a normal user. It works fine in root though

What file do I have to change permissions on??? It also says something about Xwrapper, but I don't know how to get that to work.

I think this might have been asked before, but I couldn't find it in the forum search.

bjz
01-18-2001, 04:35 PM
If you're running X 4.0 or better, take a look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. Should only be two lines in there, and one option will be allowed_users, or something similar(not at my linux machine, so can't check). That option's probably set to rootonly. Change it to console or anybody. Console is better(more secure, I'd imagine).

klamath
01-18-2001, 06:28 PM
That's right -- set 'allowed_users=console' in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

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