Re: X11 Permission denied

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:00:27 EST Rob MacWilliams (robmacw@cl-sys.com) 
wrote:

> I'm using xdm, which starts on boot,  on my Debian system.  If I login as rob and then su, I can't
> get any X apps to work.  They all fail with the following error:
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> Initialization error: X server not responding
> : ":0.0"

If you're suing to root, just do:
	export XAUTHORITY=<home of the user you were>/.Xauthority

If you're suing to someone else:
As the user you're suing from:
	xauth list
As the user you're suing to:
	xauth add <paste here the <yourmachine>/unix:0 line>

Recommended lectures:
	(3x)Xsecurity
	(1x)xauth
	(1x)xhost

Phil.