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> However "startx" returns with an error informing me that the login is not
> authorized to use the X srvr. I looked through some of the X related scripts
> and have combed through some of the Debian docs and links the Knoppix has
> set up, but to no avail.

Since Knoppix is based on Debian it is likely that it uses the Xwrapper program. This is controlled by /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config on a "sarge" version of Debian. This file contains the "allowed_users" option with possible values of "rootonly", "console" and "anybody".

For more details "man Xwrapper.config" is your best bet. Since this file can be managed by "debconf" you could also try to run

dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-common

but I am not sure how many changes Knoppix makes to "debconf"-style configuration.

linux server for xwindow

AFAICT, the debconf style intact as one would expect it to be in Debian.

linux server for xwindow

OK, there is an Xwrapper config on the system which contains only the following:

Example 1. Xwrapper.config

allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10

I discover that if I change 'console' to 'anybody' then X runs. There is remains a caveat with the .Xauthority file, however. It gets written as an empty file, whether or not I'm allowed to run X.

In any event, I'd kinda prefer to use the security mechanism that they're implementing here and leave it set to 'console'. So it seems that the problem may lie with the system determining that I'm not running starts from the console.