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Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +



On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI wrote:
| I am running woody and have two shells open in X.  One is su'ed to root 
| and has the display variable set correctly and exported.  The other is a 
| common user id that has done xhost +.
| 
| When I run an X program from the su'ed shell I get an errot "cannot 
| connect"  It looks alot like it would if I had not done xhost +.  Any 
| thoughts?

Use ssh.  It will set the display stuff up properly and not open up
holes at the same time.

-D



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