Subject: Re: Problems using xdm with xdmcp (Solved)
To: Ian P. Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/19/2004 11:32:09
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:42:36AM -0400, Ian P. Thomas wrote:
| I was now left with just the last error.
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| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling: Permission denied.
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| This was caused by the way Xwilling is called in xdm-config.
| =09
| su -m nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
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| The file, Xwilling, is not set as executable. I went and changed it so=
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| that if was and now everything works. Alternately,
|=20
| su -m nobody -c 'sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling'
I've fixed the build process so that this file (and various others in
/etc/X11/xdm) are installed with as executable.
I think that this is more appropriate than running the through
/bin/sh, since Xwilling can arguably be a binary program.
Cheers,
Luke.
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