On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user
on any other system to connect to your X server as well.
Actually, you will be allowing any user on system
You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable...
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up
You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable...
it is set. otherwise he would get the message
... Xt error: Can't open display: instead of
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:07:17PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user
on any other system to connect to your X
The other solution, setting XAUTHORITY in the root environment to
that of the user that owns the X session, also worked for me.
I've never seen that before - neat.
I'm thinking, shouldn't this be done automatically by /bin/su ?
This would make a lot of sense and simplify life significantly.
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
superuser, and then execute
Bryan Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
superuser, and then execute the
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Any ideas?
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Bryan Walton wrote:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
superuser, and then execute the program, the
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
That should work, but what I usually do is:
xhost +localhost
since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user
on any other system to connect to your X server as well.
Actually, you will be allowing any user on system 'root' to
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