Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-22 Thread Richard Harran
George Bonser wrote: > xhost is ridden with security problems, use the xauth method. Anyone on > any host in your xauth table can view your screen, even change things like > remap your keyboard, while you are completely unaware that it is > happening. If you have typed xauth +myhost at some po

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-21 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, One way to solve this problem would be using 'xhost +localhost' to enable connections to the X server from your own machine. However, this may compromise security (probably not much of a concern for a single user machine). Trying this out I noticed that on my machine I can also use start an Xw

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-21 Thread Richard Harran
hope this help Rich Phil Dyer wrote: > > Pollywog wrote: > > > I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. > > Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refus

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-20 Thread Phil Dyer
Pollywog wrote: > I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. > Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > ktail: can

magic cookie error

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 thanks -- Andrew