On Feb 2, 2008 11:49 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > howdie gang! > > I have two clients with a similar problem: the run a job dispatcher that > sends their requests to a free node in a compute cluster to run a > compilation or simulation of the system. Some of those jobs are supposed > to open an interactive X connection. the display is set right but of > course one needs authority to access the user's display. right now it > means the user has to run it with "xhost +" and that's just too > permissive.
How about copying over the cookie using "xauth nextract ... | ssh ... xauth nmerge ..." (or whatever is required to pass over the cookie, you get the idea)? Also try setting up the XAUTHORITY envariable to point to a .Xauthority file with the right cookies in it. --Amos
