XDM problem
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Tue Jun 5 04:34:00 GMT 2001
> 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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