Rob Hudson wrote:
> Where can I tell X to allow root (or anyone from localhost) to be able
> to connect to the server? Someone said try 'xset +localhost' but that
> didn't do anything.
Short answer: man Xsecurity
Longer answer:
You're probably using MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authorization.
You have a cookie in ~/.Xauthority. If you change your home directory
with su, it won't find the right .Xauthority. Fix that by setting
the XAUTHORITY environment variable.
I do not recommend using host-based authorization, unless your machine
is off the Internet.
If you really want to switch from MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE to host-based
authorization, find the command used to start the X server and
change the "-auth" argument. If you use xdm, I think you can edit
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and change DisplayManger._0.authorize to
false. If you use kdm or gnome's dm, I don't know.
Disclaimer: I don't really understand X security very well. For many
years, I had "xhost +" in my .xsession files.
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