As the owner of the display, in other words the
user who logged in and started X, execute in an
xterm "xhost + sylvester" to authorize anyone
on sylvester to use that display.
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David S. Jackson [mailto:">dsj@sylvester.dsj.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:08 AM
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Xauth
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading the xauth man page, but I don't understand how to
> allow myself to run Xapps as root in my user account Xwindow. For
> example, if I want to run some spiffy network Xapp in my user account
> X
> window, I would su to root, and launch from an xterm. But I get
> something like
>
> Xlib: connection to "sylvester.dsj.net:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
> How could I correct this?
>
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