On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:46 -0500, Todd Reed wrote:

I’ve been looking online for resources that may help me, but I haven’t found anything that worked. I’m trying to run x as a non-root user. Any suggestions?

I get the messages:

Fatal server error:

PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.

    Perhaps you do not have console ownership?

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support

     at http://wiki.X.Org

for help.

Here is what I’ve tried:

1.     chmod 777 /dev/console
   
   
   
   

2.     /etc/pam.d/xserver looks like:
   
   

auth sufficient pam_rootok.so

auth required pam_console.so

account required pam_permit.so

auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so

auth required /lib/security/pam_permit.so

account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so

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That happens when you log in as root then "su" to the user you are trying to startx with.

Just create a user with useradd. Then give him a password with passwd, exit the console then log in with that user and run startx.