Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:28:52PM +0100, Ivan Brezina wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joseph Pingenot wrote: From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi.

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:28:52PM +0100, Ivan Brezina wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joseph Pingenot wrote: From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi.

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-10 Thread Andreas Kotes
* David Stanaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20021110 14:19]: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:42, Joseph Pingenot wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-10 Thread Andreas Kotes
* David Stanaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20021110 14:19]: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:42, Joseph Pingenot wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
I am using woody + testing + some unstable: in xterm/gnome-terminal usually I do (as normal user) xhost + This disables access control in the X server. This is, almost always, a very bad idea. Indeed. Therefore I use mfluch@seneca:~$ su Password: root@seneca:/home/mfluch export

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Indeed. Therefore I use mfluch@seneca:~$ su Password: root@seneca:/home/mfluch export XAUTHORITY=/home/mfluch/.Xauthority root@seneca:/home/mfluch ...and then every X application works just as before as the normal user. It's a little simpler

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote: mfluch@seneca:~$ su Password: root@seneca:/home/mfluch export XAUTHORITY=/home/mfluch/.Xauthority root@seneca:/home/mfluch ...and then every X application works just as before as the normal user. It's a little simpler to do: $ ssh -X

su and x (was Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing)

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Jörg Schütter wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:36:25 +0200 (EET) Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote: It's a little simpler to do: $ ssh -X root@localhost Even easier: the following lines in the /root/.bashrc do the

Re: su and x (was Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing)

2002-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Try http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml chj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Indeed. Therefore I use [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mfluch export XAUTHORITY=/home/mfluch/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mfluch ...and then every X application works just as before as the normal user. It's

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mfluch export XAUTHORITY=/home/mfluch/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mfluch ...and then every X application works just as before as the normal user. It's a little simpler to

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Jörg Schütter
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:36:25 +0200 (EET) Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote: It's a little simpler to do: $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even easier: the following lines in the /root/.bashrc do the same trick: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ]; then

su and x (was Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing)

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Jörg Schütter wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:36:25 +0200 (EET) Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote: It's a little simpler to do: $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even easier: the following lines in the /root/.bashrc do the

Re: su and x (was Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing)

2002-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Try http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml chj

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Steve Johnson
No, but I have noticed when i open an xterm, su to root and run vi(vim-gtk), whenever I quit vi, i get this. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 08 Nov 2002, Steve Johnson wrote: No, but I have noticed when i open an xterm, su to root and run vi(vim-gtk), whenever I quit vi, i get this. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Steve Johnson said: No, but I have noticed when i open an xterm, su to root and run vi(vim-gtk), whenever I quit vi, i get this. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi. Probably the easiest way to do this is, instead of using su/sudo, run ssh -X localhost. It'll tunnel your X apps

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Ivan Brezina
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joseph Pingenot wrote: From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi. Probably the easiest way to do this is, instead of using su/sudo,

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
From Ivan Brezina on Friday, 08 November, 2002: Another possibility is: su -c vim-gtk you can also use xhost +username for allowing users to connect to our Xserver. But this does not work for me on Debian. xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Yogesh Sharma
xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your password if nobody can connect remotely!). Thus, xhost won't work. I am

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread David Stanaway
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:42, Joseph Pingenot wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your password if nobody can

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
Indeed. My mistake. I just verified that X wasn't listening in to tcp/6000, xhost +'ed, and su -'ed, setup the display variable, and it worked. NM. I'm wrong. Seems something on this guy's end is borken. -Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as Microsoft, we will never take a company

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:53:10AM -0800, Yogesh Sharma wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 08 Nov 2002, Steve Johnson wrote: No, but I have noticed when i open an xterm, su to root and run vi(vim-gtk), whenever I quit vi, i get this. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Steve Johnson said: No, but I have noticed when i open an xterm, su to root and run vi(vim-gtk), whenever I quit vi, i get this. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi. Probably the easiest way to do this is, instead of using su/sudo, run ssh -X localhost. It'll tunnel your X apps

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Ivan Brezina
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joseph Pingenot wrote: From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi. Probably the easiest way to do this is, instead of using su/sudo,

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Yogesh Sharma
xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your password if nobody can connect remotely!). Thus, xhost won't work. I am

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread David Stanaway
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:42, Joseph Pingenot wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your password if nobody can

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
Indeed. My mistake. I just verified that X wasn't listening in to tcp/6000, xhost +'ed, and su -'ed, setup the display variable, and it worked. NM. I'm wrong. Seems something on this guy's end is borken. -Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as Microsoft, we will never take a company

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:53:10AM -0800, Yogesh Sharma wrote: xhost is for working with connections coming over tcp. :0.0 uses a named socket (/tmp/Xsomething), and Debian's X servers don't listen in on a tcp socket by default (security. No chance of someone sniffing your