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

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

Bill Allombert wrote:

> 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,
>  
Thanks, that's very useful, at least occasionally. Aside from
that I'll follow your advice never to follow your advice!
<grin>

Cheers,
Dave