"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm having a intermitent problem here... > Sometimes, during the work, my X server refuses to give me > credits to use my Display!!! > I try to open a browser, a terminal, something, and it didn't > open... > When trying to open from a terminal I got this messages: > > [leonardo@xxxxxx leonardo]$ xhost + > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > xhost: unable to open display ":0" > [leonardo@xxxxxx leonardo]$ > > Heck, I'm logged. > All works fine, but this happens twice a day, or not for a > week... > Using MDK 8, XFree -version gives > Free86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) > > Any hints? > > Thanx > New Mandrake security does not authorize the localhost to connect to the X-server, at least it seems new. You can get around this by typing "xhost +localhost" at the command line, and do an enter. This allows the localhost to be added the ACL. If you are only one using the machine, this is not a major security compromise but if others use your machine, beware of what they are doing.... drjung
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