How to start X as non root user without using display manager

[C R McClenaghan]

Thanks! This is works great!

Chris

On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:03 AM, TeXitoi wrote:

> C R McClenaghan <chris at mcclenaghan.com> writes:
>
>> I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone.
>> Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a
>> display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid <name|uid> option
>> to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - "X: user not
>> authorized to run the X server, aborting". If I login using a usb
>> keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem.
>
> to start X without owning the console, see /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Personnally, on debian, I use that in /etc/inittab :
>
> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty2
>
> and autologin :
> #!/bin/sh
> exec su -l user -c startx -- vt4
>
> Thanks to getty in inittab, the console is owned by the launcher, and
> /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config do not nead to be touched.
>
> to customise your xsession, just customise .xsession.
>
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