Hi Bill,
normally it should work with sudo. Please comment out the line
Defaults env_reset
in your /etc/sudoers (if it isn't) and try again Ulli Am Dienstag, den 01.03.2005, 10:25 -0500 schrieb Bill Roberts: > 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 >
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