On 17:01 Tue 01 Mar , Ulrich Anhalt wrote: > 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
Your suggestion for /etc/sudoers solved the problem for gvim, but firefox was very unhappy, root needs to own the firefox profile in the users home directory. I think sux might be a possibility, but I need to look at the implications of it. Lastly, if I can figure out the MIT-magic-cookie thing, I might try that as well. Thanks to everyone for pointing the way(s). 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
