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Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +



on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI (hanasaki@hanaden.com) wrote:
> I am running woody and have two shells open in X.  One is su'ed to root 
> and has the display variable set correctly and exported.  The other is a 
> common user id that has done xhost +.
> 
> When I run an X program from the su'ed shell I get an errot "cannot 
> connect"  It looks alot like it would if I had not done xhost +.  Any 
> thoughts?

XF86v4 denies tcpip connects by default.

*Don't* use xhost.

*Do* use ssh.

See list over past two months for prior discussion on this topic.

Peace.

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