On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:17:39PM +0000, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > Hi, > > I've got this CentOS 4.4 machine, and I can't run X apps under sudo, since > they get rejected by the X-server. DISPLAY is set correctly in the sudo > environemnt, but xterm (for example) says 'Xlib: connection to ":0.0" > refused by server'. > > This problem seems very familiar (I think it may have been discussed on > the list before), but I don't remember how to solve it. It doesn't happen > on my Debian box at home. Is there some magic thing I need to tell sudo to
Make sure somethiing isn't changing $HOME to /root; it needs to be /home/$you so that it can access the right .Xauthority file. - Rob .
