On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the > following message: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Bring up xterm, ssh -l root localhost No need to muck around with xhost or magic cookies or anything else. Robin
