on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:47:02PM +0200, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a small but nasty problem when running KDE2. > > If I try to run a command as another user as the one who is "really" logged > > in i get the following error message: > > > > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Trying to launch kdeinit. > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server. > > kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session. > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > kmail: cannot connect to X server :0 > > DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-21029' to 'kmail' > > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! > > > > I run potatoe on an i386-compatible. > > > > Thanxx a lot > > > > Andreas Maresch > > > > This is normal.. the X protocol treat to be secure.. take a look at > man xhost xhost(1) and you will find out how to allow users to connect > your X server.
No.
*Don't* modify X access permissions with xhosts. It's horribly
insecure.
Rather where $NEWUSER is the su'd user and $OLDUSER is the user the X
session is running under:
# as $NEWUSER
$ xauth merge ~$OLDUSER/.Xauthority
...or as $OLDUSER copy .Xauthority to $NEWUSER.
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