During the bombing raid of Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:45:55 +1100, somebody
heard Ron Stodden mumble in fear:
> Bryan Paxton wrote:
>
> > Not a bug at all, this is user error(you failed to research the problem).
> > xhost +127.0.0.1
> > Solves your problem
> >
> > I suggest putting this in your ~/.xinitrc
> > You can optionally put this in the global Xsession file(in /etc/X11)
>
> What an awful way to respond! Do you not realise we are performing
> beta testing on a product for world-wide distribution?
Yes, and if you read bugtraq or securityportal or similar sites,
you'll notice that the fact that you could do that in previous versions
of Mandrake was conscidered a *BUG* because only the user that starts an
X session should have access to it unless he *specifically* decides
otherwise. I'm glad mandrake fixed this *security hole*
> I stand by my claim - not a user error, a showstopper (which your
> 'fix' does not fix, BTW).
"xhost +localhost" as the user that runs X, then "export
DISPLAY=:0" as root in the terminal where you su'ed will get you going.
(that second part is what was missing in the original answer)
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