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Re: X host will not connect



On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Peter Wiersig
<friese@london087.server4you.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:11:09 +0200, Mark Panen <mark.panen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "synaptic
>> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>>
>> (synaptic:12730): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0"
>
> Try "ln -sf /home/mark/.Xauthority /root/" as root if mark is the user
> logged in via ssh -X.
>
> Note that this link is then permanent and if you wish to revoke roots
> access to your display you can rm /root/.Xauthority
>
> Peter
>
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>

yes, that works thanks.


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