-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ragga Muffin wrote:
> > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I on > > the right track? > > Yes and no. What yuo need to do is temporarily permit x-connections from > your localhost if you want to start an x program with a different > user than the current session (in this case root) > > Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. I think that doing xhost local:root is better. There are 2 reasons for this: 1. You're specifying a user name, which gives added security if you've got a multi-user system. 2. You're specifying a local connection, not a connection that uses a network interface. The X server connections with use Unix sockets, not TCP sockets. This gives you less overhead since you don't have to send all your data through a TCP stack. noah _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOW5kTIdCcpBjGWoFAQGFjAP/V/dalkL6GK7O8Mwbgd//3GpLQLU7e5GG wPl9hHIZm8tjx1FOHlxtnpxHw8RREof1ttubhR1n2Rvs8UVXfHpqIf0V5nQf2FGA viuMT6NUtFfi2fcvq9607vc2nPPR8yqwe5aMFhVV3fj13PpIYRqxz0nnuH7NoU+F 3AN2DeTRBDo= =MEnf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
