Thanks, I'll look into that, but I should have mentioned earlier that I am
trying to use the text mode of vim. :/ I have vi linked to vim, and I
thought to use it as X, I needed to issue xvim instead.
I will look into the xhost mans anyway, as at least that might get rid of
the error message :) Thank you.
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-Dec-99 [techtalk] Problems with vi by
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> > Hi. :)
>
> Hi :)
>
> > I am currently running Slackware 7.0 with vim 5.5
> >
> > I am encountering an odd error that when I am remotely connected to my
> > computer and su to another user (any user, including root), I get the
> > following error message:
> >
> >
> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Fri Dec 3
> > 17:13:43 1999.
> > a
> > Rejected connection at Fri Dec 3 17:13:43 1999: X11 connection from
> > paxumbrae.com port 2804
> >
> > X connection to hermes:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> Using ssh?
>
> ssh, or any other secure shell, makes sure that X connections[1] can
> only be made by authorized users. For example (if paxumbrae is the
> remote and hermes is the local, and lilith is your username on both),
> when you make the ssh connection from hermes to paxumbrae, the ssh
> client assumes that you, lilith@hermes, will allow X connections from
> lilith@paxumbrae. If you su, you are then someoneelse@paxumbrae or even
> root@paxumbrae, which X, as run by lilith@hermes, doesn't recognize as
> being authorized to make X connections. The easiest way to fix this is
> by doing
>
> xhost +paxumbrae.com
>
> on the local machine, which allows all X connections from paxumbrae.com.
> If you want to keep your security, use xauth. It's nontrivial though,
> so I'll just tell you to read the manpage. Alternatively, you could
> just use vim in text mode.
>
> [1]. X is actually pretty interesting. It was from the start designed
> to be networked, so pretty much everything is done over sockets. The
> way it works
> is you run an X server (slightly confusing term, since this is run on
> what is usually considered a "client" machine). Every program that uses
> X is a client, and it connects to the X server. So, X servers are just
> like any other server, such as ftp or web, and can require
> authentication. When and from who authentication is required can be
> configured with the xhost and xauth commands.
>
>
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