Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote:
> Greetings to the list,
> I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
> through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
> non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
> superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the
> following message:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Bring up xterm,
ssh -l root localhost
No need to muck around with xhost or magic cookies or anything else.
Robin
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