The following text was discovered Friday 16 August 2002 in a note attributed to one "Joanne Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>":
> A few programs I've got seem to suddenly have issues with connecting to > the X server. > <snip> > Is this a new retightening of X security, or a bug? If the former, how can > I get X to allow these things to reconnect again? Despite my firewall, I > don't exactly want to go around with access control completely disabled > all the time. :) Okay, I found it, and it's a Newbie Idiot Thing, as expected - ~/.Xauthority was for some reason chowned to root.root. Changed that and now it works again. Sorry. :) -- Joanne Hunter <http://menagerie.tf/~jrhunter/> Say No to HTML Mail!/"\ Of course, I don't know how interesting any of this really is, \ / but now you've got it in your brain cells so you're stuck with it. X --Gary Larson ASCII Ribbon Campaign/ \