Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>
Subject: Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session
From: DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:23:55 -0600
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David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org> writes:

> When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user,
> then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI)
> to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user.
> 
> I would like to do this on Debian, but when I try to start ethereal, I get
> the error message:
>   Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Apparently root is not allowed to display to a user's X session. How can I
> allow this?


'xhost +localhost' should fix the problem (this allows connections to
your x session from your local machine).

HTH

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