On 19 Nov 01 21:25:47 GMT, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
Have you tried 'su -p'? Frank -- Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: <URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/>
