Subject: Re: X-11
To: Mike Sienicki <mike@cpdist.com>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 04/16/1999 21:00:13 
On Thu 15 Apr 1999, Mike Sienicki wrote:
> Dear NetBSD,
> Is it normal to NOT be able to start X unless your the superuser?

Yes. You don't want the general public (== users) to start login services
on your machine and mmap-ing your graphics device.

Normally, xdm is started from /etc/rc.

Leo.