Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

[A+B Frank <abfrankffm@web.de>]

Terry Carney wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christopher R. Barry wrote:
> 
> >   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> >   Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> >   Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> >
> > I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to stop this
> > from happening. What do I do so I can run programs as root?
> 

Hi,
try man xauth
xauth -v merge ..... works across machines

Greetings
Albrecht