on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, ScruLoose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey folks, > > So I want to log in to X as one regular (non-root) user, and then allow > a different regular user to run X apps. > > After getting this error: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > I googled it and found lots of hits, all saying to use "xhost > +localhost" to allow me to do what I want.
Nope.
Don't use xhost. It's inherently evil. Vaguely suitable for 1985.
Definitely not OK in 2003.
Fortunately, Debian's default X config largely obviates it.
What you want is:
xrdb -merge ~<xserver-user>/.xauthority
...or copy contents of that file to a location the second user can
access.
Peace.
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