Hi
On 2 Feisty installations up to now, I figured out that programs witch
needs be started with gksu or gksudo, works only on the server.
When I am using for example synaptic on a thin client I only get this
error message:
"Failed to run synaptic as root. Unable to copy Xauthorization file"
If am running the same from the console, like this:
$ gksu synaptic
I get additional this line:
"Error copying: /home/teacher/.Xautority to /tmp/libgksu-doX No such
file or directory"
The same is happening with the command gksudo.
Now I figured out, that really the .Xautority file in the home folder is
missing. Like I understand, this file is getting created during a user
login automatically. This happen at least during a login with the same
user on the server.
One way is to get it working is this:
1.) ON THE SERVER: login with the user teacher
2.) ON THE SERVER: cp .Xautority .Xautority.org
3.) ON THE SERVER: logout
4.) ON A CLIENT: login with the user teacher
5.) ON A CLIENT: cp .Xautority.org .Xautority
6.) ON A CLIENT: gksu synaptic
On other way is just to use kdesu instead of gksu.
$ kdesu synaptic
that is on the screen:
<snip>
xauth: creating new athoirty file /home/teacher/.Xauthority
kdesu (kdelibs): WARINING: No authentication info set for display
192.168.0.250:6.0
</snip>
kdesu is able to create the .Xautority file, and finally I get synaptic
as root.
Does somebody know a solution for this except to use kdesu.
May this is imported, I am using LDM_DIRECT = True in lts.conf together
with a updated ldm script.
Thanks
Philipp
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