On 4/10/22 8:52 pm, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
To use the display without ssh root login. ssh as normal user to host. Then echo $DISPLAY su - export DISPLAY=localhost:10 (or whatever your logged in user DISPLAY is set to) xauth add $(xauth -f ~<your user name>/.Xauthority list | tail -1) xhostThanks, that worked after a little fiddling. Firstly, /root/.Xauthority didn't exist, so xauth complained. Touching the file sorted that. And secondly, the .Xauthority file contained three lines and the one I need was in the middle :( I suppose that was a result of previous fiddling about I'd done resulting in extra logins. But removing the last entry in the file (a) didn't immediately crash anything and (b) let xauth work next time I ran it :) So success, and many thanks! Oh and
I tested this before I responded. However in my system I can also log in as root and run graphics applications. I did this before checking the workaround.
I assume when I ran graphics first as root, the .Xauthority file was created so I didn't get the error you had later. Plus the new .Xauthority file wouldn't have had any garbage in it.
-- Jeremy
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