On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Артур Истомин wrote: > > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the > > > desktop. > > > > > > Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to > > > do > > > about it other than logging into the xserver as root - which I do not want > > > to do: > > > > > > $ sudo system-config-printer > > > > > > No protocol specified > > > error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. > > > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused > > > No protocol specified > > > > > > > xhost + > > sudo system-config-printer > > xhost - # don't forget to do it after you're done with system-config-printer > > 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use > xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost + > si:localuser:root', this would allow only root from the local machine to > connect. Just be sure to run 'xhost - si:localuser:root' as soon as you > are done. You can run xhost without any arguments to see exactly who is > alowed to connect to you.
Exactly :) But I am very lazy. It is very long string for me on my local machine with only one user =) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140501171959.GB4024@localhost
