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ejbr at comcast

Sep 3, 2004, 5:01 PM

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Re: X and su not playing well together

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".

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kogorman at gmail

Sep 3, 2004, 8:18 PM

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Re: X and su not playing well together [In reply to]

"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
>
>



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