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
X11 as user
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 draconian
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 only
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
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,
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 clients. For
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:hostname
