
kogorman at gmail
Sep 3, 2004, 8:18 PM
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"sux" was the first winner, but this works too. Thanks! I've never seen that syntax before. ++ kevin On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:01:41 -0400, ejbr [at] comcast <ejbr [at] comcast> wrote: > > > On Friday 03 September 2004 05:22 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I'm still on XFree, getting used to Gentoo, and one thing keeps bugging > > me. It used to be (on other distros) that when I su'ed to root, I could > > nevertheless use X client programs. I just had to 'xhost +localhost' > > in my normal login. > > > > I'm guessing that security concerns have prompted a change. Is there > > still a way to do this? Perhaps a default configuration is now more > > restrictive? > > Try "xhost +local:localhost". > > -- > Ed Jabbour > > -- > gentoo-user [at] gentoo mailing list > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user [at] gentoo mailing list
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