On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: > > As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue > in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but > chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem is that something would change the ownership back to root.root. I believe I fixed the problem but I am not yet certain. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]