Hi all
Don't know if it's been mentioned on this thread yet, but Francois Gouget
wrote a script, sux[1], to transfer $DISPLAY and X cookies so X apps work
fine when assuming another user's identity. Details were posted here[2]
about a year ago and I've appreciated it ever since. Just use it as
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| Hello,
| you shouldn just copy over .Xauth files.. It will ruin root X access ;)
What do you mean, "ruin root X access"? What X access does root have
in the first place? You certainly don't 'startx' as root in the first
place, do you?
Well, you can startx as
This is from a local LUG list:
The safe way of doing this is to use xauth. xauth will allow you to
set a magic cookie on your root account such that your X server will
recognize it as being eligible to access your X server.
First, as the non-root user who is running X type in an xterm:
xa
on Sun, Jun 16, 2002, Oleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sunday 16 June 2002 10:55 pm, ttv wrote:
> > Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
> >
> >
> > Camranh:/home/thanh# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > emacs: Cann
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:22:55AM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| >On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0400, ttv wrote:
| >| Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
| >Solution 2 :
| ># cp ~user/.Xauthority ~/
| >
| >Copy your normal user's .Xauthority file
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0400, ttv wrote:
| Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
Solution 1 :
Don't "su -". If you don't put the '-' on there, su will inherit
the current process' environment and maintain xauth
Solution 2 :
# cp ~u
On Sunday 16 June 2002 10:55 pm, ttv wrote:
> Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
>
>
> Camranh:/home/thanh# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variabl
ttv writes:
> Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
X apps are not secure enough to be run by root.
> any ideas how to fix it ?
'emacs -nw' will run emacs in an xterm.
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0400, ttv wrote:
| Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
Solution 1 :
Don't "su -". If you don't put the '-' on there, su will inherit
the current process' environment and maintain xauth
Solution 2 :
# cp ~user/.Xauthority ~/
Copy your
Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ...
Camranh:/home/thanh# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use the `xhost' program to verify th
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