Re: Permission to run chrooted X-apps remotely as user root

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:48:46AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
> 
> This is not really an amd64 topic, aside from the fact that pure64 
> creates the need for
> a chroot. The issue is X11 permissions within an ia32 chroot.

First off, never run a X11 app as root.
Second, once you ignore the warning above, issue:

xauth merge /home/<your login>/.Xauthority

as root. This will add your credentials to root credentials.
That should solve the problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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