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RE: XDM problem
- Subject: RE: XDM problem
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:29:20 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> The following message from Alexander Gottwald (mail arcive) might answer
> your question.
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01780.html
>
I don't think so.
> > >
> > > Does XDM work on cygwin xfree86 ? When I try to run it from a bash
> > > console, I got permission problem.
> > >
Only root wants to run xdm?
Please try "xdm -debug 1". digging through the source i found the following
lines:
/*
* Only allow root to run in non-debug mode to avoid problems
*/
if (debugLevel == 0 && getuid() != 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "Only root wants to run %s\n", argv[0]);
exit (1);
}
HTH, bye
ago
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