David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. > > I would like to do this on Debian, but when I try to start ethereal, I get > the error message: > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Apparently root is not allowed to display to a user's X session. How can I > allow this?
'xhost +localhost' should fix the problem (this allows connections to your x session from your local machine). HTH