Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo
On Tuesday 26 May 2015 21:58:47 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Reco wrote on 05/26/2015 01:53 PM:
> > Yet there's a way to solve your problem - get a habit of running
> > X clients like this:
> >
> > HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
> >
> > Re-defining $HOME is crucial as otherwise you risk users' rewriting
> > configuration files by root.
>
> Are you saying that if I type:
> HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
> xterm should run?
>
> What actually happens is that I still get the same error:
>
> n7dr@shack:~$ HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> etc.
When you installed, did you install with root?
Lisi
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