<p>Ah. Root has to build an xauthority file. Login from console as root and run startx and that should do it. Then ssh -X wiil work as long as you su and not su -. Your nonroot ssh user also must loginto X once from console as well. <br>
Gvim is not a security sensitive application.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2012 5:18 AM, "Jim Lynch" <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 01/30/2012 10:32 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
><br>
> Security has changed at the PAM and selinix layers. In centos6 rot<br>
> can't run startx with selinux in targeted mode.<br>
> Most config gui are run as non-root and authentication is with a popup<br>
> password box. So run the stuff as a normal user and wait for the prompt.<br>
> RHEL7 will have selinux for X (partly at least).<br>
><br>
Selinux is off. It must be a PAM issue. I'm not running a config gui<br>
but gvim, normally.<br>
<br>
So there's no way to turn it off?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jim.<br>
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