xdm

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Fri Dec 7 04:37:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Janos Sebestyen (ETH) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Janos and I am trying to use cygwin and Xfree under win2k, it is working fine, but I have a question!
> How can I use xdm and chooser, because it is allways said Only root wants to run xdm?

There is no such user root on winnt. But there is a workaround. Start 
xdm with the option "-debug 1". This should allow you start it. But
I don't know if the authentication via xdm works on windows.

bye
	ago
-- 
 Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de 
 http://www.gotti.org           ICQ: 126018723
 phone: +49 3725 349 80 80	mobile: +49 172 7854017



More information about the Cygwin-xfree mailing list