On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:11:21AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Steven G. Kargl, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Thanks for the hint. I took the rather draconian action of
> deleting user sgk's .Xauthority file. Then I used xauth to
> merge in user kargl's entire .Xauthority. This appears to
> work o
Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> If all your X sessions are local to you machine (and possibly even if
> they aren't), then try setting the DISPLAY variable to :0.0 -- you'll
> need to repeat the fun'n'games with xauth to match the new $DISPLAY
> setting.
Thanks for the hint. I took the rather draconia
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:08:22PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > > After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question.
> > >
> > > I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start
> >
Steven G. Kargl writes:
> I've tried using "xhost sgk@", but this doesn't work.
> The only thing I can think of that may need to be
> configured is PAM, but the documentation is rather
> incomplete. So, anyone know how to setup su to
> permit sgk to use X clients?
"xhost +inet:" wo
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question.
> >
> > I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start
> > X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot
> > fire up X client
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question.
>
> I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start
> X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot
> fire up X clients. For example,
>
> troutmask:ka
After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question.
I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start
X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot
fire up X clients. For example,
troutmask:kargl[202] su sgk
Password:
troutmask:sgk[201] gnuplot
Terminal type set to 'x11'