On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:48:11PM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 22:16, Burkhard Perkens-Golomb wrote: > > During upgrade a warning appears that X starts now with "-nolisten tcp" > > :-) . See /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers, delete "-nolisten tcp". > No please don't delete it (without a good reason). The problem can be > solved in two other ways without any security loss. a) use ssh as > described earlier or b) use :0 instead of localhost:0 and su - After su - > you can use (put it in a script) as root: > export DISPLAY=:0 > xauth -f ~<my-normal-user>/.Xauthority extract - $DISPLAY | xauth merge - There's an even simpler way (tho I wouldn't understand why you don't use ssh): ln -fs /home/achim/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority That way root will always have the "Magic cookie" from X, when achim is logged in via X. > > Greetings to Wuppertal from Munich, > Second greeting to Wuppertal from Munich, and first one from Munich to > Munich :) All greetings from Hamburg to Wuppertal, Munich and also Munich ;) are we provoking a pingpong here? -- Jens Benecke > "Dann nimm lieber gleich Pattex!" "Na, ob das was hilft - der Hersteller ist schließlich eine Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung :-)" (-- aus dem Usenet) http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Die kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale für ganz Europa
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