From: wpwood@darkwing.austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: can't start xconsole in X for non-root user Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 14:14:26 GMT
In article <1993Sep21.100138.24996@syma.sussex.ac.uk> tauq7@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Wai Ho) writes:
> I've been unable to get xconsole to open the console when
>running X as a non-root user. The xconsole works fine for root or su
>but not for normal user. I have done the following but no success:
> 1) set root uid for xterm, xconsole, X386, xdm, xinit
> 2) set perm for tty0 to be 'rw' for all
> 3) /dev is now 'rwx' for all
> I'm currently running SLS's copy of Linux and Xfree 1.2. Can
>someone enlighten me on this ?
By convention, X programs that intercept the console will only do so
if the person running them owns the console. I know that the xdm
GiveConsole and TakeConsole scripts should take care of ownership
of the console device, but if you just run startx, it probably doesn't.
FYI, I'm not sure what the console device is under Linux (I'm
at work right now), but on my RS/6000, it is /dev/console.
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