Re: xhosts question..

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about "xhosts question.."
> 
> Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account 
> and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use 
> xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses...
> 
> Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something 
> like that -- then I su back and everything works fine.
> 
> I've read "man xhost" or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I 
> can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just 
> add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place?
> 
> Can someone help?
> 

I use the following method on my single user home machine.  In my root's
.login(I run tcsh as roots shell)

if ($TERM == xterm-debian) then
	setenv XAUTHORITY /home/servis/.Xauthority
endif

Where /home/servis is my normal users home directory.  Then all I have
do is set the $DISPLAY variable or supply the -display command line
option for root programs to use X.

-- 
Brian 
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