permission problem - root is the only user which can login
 

while i was trying to get my nvidia drivers working properly, the nvidia FAQ guide told me to
do:

chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia*
chown root /dev/nvidia*

but i accidently put it in the terminal as "chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia*" and now i cant login with anyother user than root.

i also did this sometimes when i login with a normal user when i tried to startx it said i dont have pam permissions or something like that

i have red hat 9

Try adding this to your X config file (be it /etc/xorg.conf or /etc/XF86Config-4):Håkan

Nope that didnt work :(

also when i try to login it says bin/bash: root/.bashrc Permission is Denied

and also when i try to startx as normal user, it says PAM permissions error, Perhaps you dont have console ownership?

Try adding the normal user (as opposed to root) to the "tty" group and see if that helps.


Håkan

umm how do i do that

EDIT: if you mean go into users and groups and select a user than tick the box next to tty in groups, it did not work. Should i keep this setting?

Any one else got any ideas??

See this thread
 

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=102919

I'm gonna try it