[Malvern] Booting priveledges.

[Keith Edmunds]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:18:06 +0000
geoff bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:

> It would NOT allow me to boot as root, or become root other than by "su".

You're confused over terminology. "boot" is when Linux first loads,
typically after a power-up or after typing something like "reboot" as root
(there are other ways too). I suspect you are talking about "logging in",
which is very different thing - but correct me if I'm mistaken.

> Now,  since I changed to Sarge,  I can log in as either root or as 
> geoff,  but only
> root can do  "startx".   User geoff gets told that there is no 
> .Xauthority, or some such.

If you are having problems, it is helpful to tell those whom you seek help
from precisely what the problem is - "or some such" says, to me, that
you're not sure what it says and are unable/unwilling/whatever to check.
Tell us exactly what the error message is and we'll try to help.

Best regards,
Keith

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