Re: X Server Client Refusal?

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Here are my two solutions for the xauth problem. Both of these methods 
rely on xauth (user based authorization) as opposed to xhost (host 
based authorization).

Let's say I'm running X as hessu and I need to su and run some X 
programs.

hessu% echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
hessu% su -
<type root's password>
# export DISPLAY=:0
# export XAUTHORITY=/home/hessu/.Xauthority
# xterm &

Using ssh works also and is simpler too:

hessu% ssh -l root localhost
<type root's password>
# xterm &

As shown above ssh sets DISPLAY and xauth cookies automagically.

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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