On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 01:00:48 -0800, Jean Magnan de Bornier muttered:
> Le 02/07/04 riki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit notamment:
> 
> > Oh, I've got a followup question.
> >
> > If I'm logged in as a regular user, I open up a terminal, su to root,
> > then try to launch emacs. I get the following error:
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified.
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> as regular user type "xhost +" before trying to open emacs as root, or
> open emacs in the terminal with "emacs -nw"

NO.

That'll open up your machine to anyone who tries to connect to it - a
SERIOUS security issue. Use sudo to run X programs as root.

-- 
Andrew Farmer
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