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| Boulware5 2002-09-28, 6:55 pm |
| I got my slackware 8.1 box up and running nicely. I even patched to kernel 2.4.19 and recompiled my kernel for the first time (well, first time with no problems at all  ). What I liked about the install was you had to do all the partitioning. There was no fancy GUI that does it for you. So you really get good practice using fdisk.
Anyway, to my question. I created another user and when I try to start GNOME (startx) with that user it says "xauth: timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority" and then a host of other errors. I see a .Xauthority file in /root; do I have to add that user in there to give him access to the X server? If so, what is the format in doing so? In other distros such as RedHat you can create users during the install; it wasn't the case with slack. You only create the root user. And in a distro such as redhat, any user you create can access the X server (that's by default I assume). I tried looking at some man pages and websites but it doesn't really give me the answer I'm looking for. | |
| Boulware5 2002-09-28, 7:53 pm |
| Nevermind. Forget I asked this. For some odd reason useradd didn't add the user into /home. (even with the useradd -d /home/newuser command) And then when I manually created it and ran X, it still didnt work and complained about Xauthority. Then I realized /home/newuser didn't have rwx permissions on his own home directory. After setting that, it works. |
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