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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:9142 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10196 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!ensta!bsdtest.ensta.fr!bouyer From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: access to .Xauthority in XFree86-2.0 Date: 13 May 1994 11:18:13 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 16 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <2qvnll$ctr@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <2qtqtfINN921@emx.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <2qtqtfINN921@emx.cc.utexas.edu>, brook@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Brook Milligan) writes: |> I have installed XFree86-2.0 on a NetBSD-0.9 box. It all seems to |> work, except that if the .Xauthority file for non-root users does not |> allow read-write access to everyone, the server will not allow logins. Is your home directory on an nfs nerver ? In this case, root processes on your host maybe doesn't have root priviledges on your nfs servers, and root proceses (as the X server, or xterm) can't accces your .Xauthority file. I've got a patch for this, i can mail it if you want. -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --