Robert Persson wrote:
I am trying to run gdmsetup and getting "can't find display" type errors.
Here is what happened when I try to run it from an xterm:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sux
Password:
zebedee robert # gdmsetup
(gdmsetup:6618): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
Could not access GDM configuration file.
zebedee robert # exit
exit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo gdmsetup
Password:
(gdmsetup:6828): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
I then tried, as a test, to open a root xterm using sux and I got the
following error:
sux
Password:
zebedee robert # xterm
Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected,
reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and
host-based authentication failed
However the root xterm opened up anyway. It failed when I tried to sudo an
xterm:
sudo xterm
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root
user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
However DISPLAY +is+ set. When I "echo $DISPLAY", "sudo echo $DISPLAY" or sux
and then "echo $DISPLAY" I get the same answer-- :0.0
This has got me quite confused. I used not to get these messages when I ran X
clients as root. Anyone know what is going on here?
Thanks in advance
Robert
Hi,
I tried to reproduce it, but can't. But I dicovered, that `sux` and `sux
-` is not the same. The help doesn't say anything about - parameter, but
if I give `env` after `sux` and `sux -` then I found some differences.
Maybe `sux -` worth a try for you. BTW I can start xterm without any
error or warning with or without -.
In /etc/X11 I don't find any approrpiate setting. Maybe you could try it
under TWM.
TIA.
Cheers,
Tamas Sarga
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