on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:26:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Brendan O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010325 22:14]: > > Is this a consequence of security? Is there some cheap way around it? I'm > > willing to forgo some security on my home desktop to do run things like > > qtcups. Thanks! > > A cheap way: xhost +localhost > > Do that as the *original* user and then su to root.
DON'T do that.
Do you trust every user on your box?
This is *highly* inadvisable on a single-user system. It's plain stupid
on a multiuser system.
Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is:
# As root
$ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority
...where $USER is your desired user.
This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority file to root's
.Xauthority file. Changes to user's .Xauthority file don't effect X.
X now has access to user's X session, but not vice versa.
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