Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

[Hanasaki JiJI <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Ah.. Does this hold true even though all activity is taking place on the
same host and IP and physical box?

Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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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