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.
  |=20
  | /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling: Permission denied.
  |=20
  | This was caused by the way Xwilling is called in xdm-config.
  | =09
  | 	su -m nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
  |=20
  | The file, Xwilling, is not set as executable.  I went and changed it so=
=20
  | 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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