This might be because root is a role, not a user, in OpenSolaris. Maybe that confuses gdm?
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > > On Fri, February 6, 2009 16:24, Aaron Epps wrote: >> All the time, it's called SSH ;-) The real question is why do you want a >> graphical interface to your remote OpenSolaris box? If it's to run the GUI >> config tools like packagemanager/etc just displaying them back to your Mac >> using X. For example, if I want to connect to an OpenSolaris server with >> the IP address 192.168.1.100 I'd open up a terminal on my Mac and type the >> following... >> >> ssh -X myusername at 192.168.1.100 >> >> Once I've logged in via ssh, any GUI utilities that I launch will display >> back to my Mac; for example, try typing pfexec packagemanager and you >> should see the OpenSolaris PackageManager GUI display on your Mac. > > I'm not on a Mac, but I've got SSH remote X working. However, when I try > to run something *as root* in GUI on the remote system (whether Solaris or > Linux), it fails. What's up with that? I've googled around a lot, but > all the keywords are practically generic, and I haven't found the solution > yet. > > (My desktop is Windows XP, with Xming X server. ) > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
