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RE: XDM problem
- To: "'Alexander Gottwald'" <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Subject: RE: XDM problem
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:33:54 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> Only root wants to run xdm?
Well, normally on UNIX only root runs xdm ;-) That is an issue on Windows.
I never thought xdm will be of much use to Windows users... I guess I was
wrong ;-)
Suhaib
>
> 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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