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Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps



On 2/6/11 6:34 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:25:19 -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> 
>> > On 2/6/11 6:00 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>  
>>>>> >>> > sudo synaptic
>>>>> >>> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>>>>> >>> > localhost:10.0
>>> >> (...)
>>> >> 
>>> >> Try with "gksudo <app>"
>>> >> 
>> > 
>> > okay, that worked.
>> > 
>> > What's the difference?
> I dunno the inners, but I guess it setups the rights to run X programs 
> under an X session. And not only for ssh but also for local sessions.
> 
> Greetings,
> 

Cool. thanks for the tip.

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