On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:52:22PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ragga Muffin wrote: > > > > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I > > > on the right track? > > > > Yes and no. What yuo need to do is temporarily permit x-connections from > > your localhost if you want to start an x program with a different > > user than the current session (in this case root) > > > > Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. > > I think that doing xhost local:root is better. There are 2 reasons for > this: > 1. You're specifying a user name, which gives added security if you've > got a multi-user system. > > 2. You're specifying a local connection, not a connection that uses a > network interface. The X server connections with use Unix sockets, not > TCP sockets. This gives you less overhead since you don't have to send > all your data through a TCP stack. >
The solution I found awhile ago was to link /root/.Xauthority to /home/<user>/.Xauthority John > noah > > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBOW5kTIdCcpBjGWoFAQGFjAP/V/dalkL6GK7O8Mwbgd//3GpLQLU7e5GG > wPl9hHIZm8tjx1FOHlxtnpxHw8RREof1ttubhR1n2Rvs8UVXfHpqIf0V5nQf2FGA > viuMT6NUtFfi2fcvq9607vc2nPPR8yqwe5aMFhVV3fj13PpIYRqxz0nnuH7NoU+F > 3AN2DeTRBDo= > =MEnf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- ************************ Using Linux ************************
