On 10:02 Tue 01 Mar , Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: > > >When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by > >su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error. > > > >E233: cannot open display > > This is an X security thing. Instead of launching Firefox from a su'd > session, why not install sudo and run sudo firefox? > I've tried it with sudo, and get the same error. > > The other option is to look into xhosts and figure out how to set the > magic key. > I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any secure way of using it?
Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
