Xlib error

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:37:01PM -0500, Matt Cahill wrote:
> On January 24, 2005 04:25 pm, John Vetterli wrote:
> 
> > Let me guess: from kdm, you log in as a regular user, then in an xterm,
> > you su to root?  If so, the problem is that the info needed by X's
> > authorization thingee is in the regular user's .Xauthority, not root's.
> > Try try logging in as root, or running "xhost +" before su-ing to root.
> >
> 
>   Your solution is as brief as my problem seemed complex.  Thanks very much - 
> it worked.  I'm going to have to read-up on 'xhost' now.
> 
>   Thanks again,
> 
>   Matt
> 
> P.S.  Any Synaptic-users using version 0.56?  They've done a lot of work on 
> it.

Use of xhost + is considered VERY insecure, with proper use of xauth
tokens better, and ssh -X much more secure (although overkill on local
machine).  xhost + really should only be a problem with X over a network
link, so it shouldn't be a big deal in this case.

Lennart Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml