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AW: can't start xfree as user
- From: Rüdiger Bodack <RBodack at sseg dot de>
- To: 'pingu' <vervoom at hotmail dot com>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:18:13 +0100
- Subject: AW: can't start xfree as user
Hi,
after A while I had enough with win2k rights and added my network user to
the local administrator group. Now I am the boss on my computer. Not
elegant, but works.
Rüdiger
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help out with this problem please? I have XFree86
> running on
> Windows 2K and it is fine for me when I'm logged in as Admin but if I
> log in as a User it won't run. I have a feeling the answer is to set
> owner of xinit to root but as I'm using cygwin I don't think this is
> possible is it? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.