Jesse Evans wrote: > Hi, folks! > > I like to use fte as my default editor, however, when I su to modify > my system I cannot use it. I get the following messages: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Could not open display: :0.0 > > However, if I log in as root (as opposed to su from my users > account, it works just fine. Any ideas as to what's up?
You have to explicitly give other machines and users permission to run on an x server that you start. This prevents other users on the network from annoyingly displaying things on your screen. In your case, just type 'xhost +root' before su'ing. See man xhost for more. -Mitch
