>>>>> "Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu> writes:
Raul> Hmm.. I have a soft link pointing at .Xauthority in my home
Raul> directory (from /root/.Xauthority), and I can run arbitrary
Raul> root applications under X.
A cleaner way to get the same result on a standalone machine is to put
xhost +local:
in "~you/.xsession".