On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:49:27 +0100
Thomas Fiebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a problem to do the right settings for allowing other users to
> open a display on the X display.
> 
> I'm running XFree86 4.1.12 (hope the number is right). I open a
> xterminal, allow all hosts to connect to X (xhost +), do a su -
> otheruser and set the environment(setenv DISPLAY thishost:0.0). After
> that I start an X application e.g. nedit& or so. Then it needs a
> moment and on the terminal 'NEdit can't open display' appears. I don't
> have any idea, how to solve this. Do you have????
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
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Have you tried anything besides NEdit?  I just tried this (FreeBSD
4.5-stable, XFree86-4.2.0) and it worked:

set$ sudo su access -c "xdpyinfo -display $DISPLAY "
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0.0".
set$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
set$ sudo su access -c "xdpyinfo -display $DISPLAY "
name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
[...]

["set$ " is the shell prompt, "access" is another account on set]


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