Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about "xhosts question.." > > Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account > and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use > xhost to add whatever host to the list of approv

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Allen: In your $HOME direcotry, edit the file .xinitrc In this file somewhere should be a line that says something like: xhost + blablabla. If you have no need for security (in a small home network like mine...) you can just add in: xhost + and and that should solve the problem. I thin

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-03 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: >Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account >and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use >xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... > >Anyway -- so I get out of the shel

xhosts question..

1999-05-03 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like t