How to get xdm working?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 pnews@lomarline.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> > > Replying to myself here.  Just realized: of course, you'll have to be
> > > logged in as the user you set as "root" before you run xdm...
> > >     Igor
> > In this case, will a user that is in Administrators group be able to
> > launch xdm ?
>
> Will xdm run under SYSTEM using "xdm -nodaemon" ?

xdm has this silly check for UID==0 before it can run.  Once you convince
xdm that it's running under root, it'll run under any user (even an
unprivileged one), FWICS.  Since xdm needs to access the desktop, you have
to make sure you set up the service (and access permissions) properly, but
otherwise nothing prevents xdm from being invoked by any particular user.
	Igor
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