On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 05/04/2011 01:01 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:57:48PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: > >> On 05/04/2011 11:48 AM, dan moylan wrote: > >>> > >>> when some user owns the gnome desktop, another user > >>> opereating in a terminal window seems unable to open > >>> an application that needs the display. how does one > >>> allow this? > >> > >> The user that owns the display needs to run: > >> xhost + > >> > >> Then the console user can set their $DISPLAY to 0:0 and it will work. > > > > > > Major security risk, do not do this on a networked system, a multiuser > > system or one in which you don't completely understand the X > > authentication system. > > Okay, if you don't trust your firewall then you can run: > xhost localhost > instead.
Now you need to trust all your users, including those on other boxes on your network. Trust them with your passwords, by the way. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
