On 15 Jan, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I just upgraded to hamm and am having a peculiar problem: when I am in > X as a user and I su to root in an rxvt terminal window, I am no loger > able to open any rxvt terminal as a user. I get an error saying that > rxvt cannot connect to a pseudo tty. This does not happen with xterm > and if I log out as root everything works fine again. > > Root doesn't have rights to the X display because root doesn't own the > display, the user who started the session does. A quick fix (but > insecure) is to type `xhost +localhost' before su'ing to root. A > better fix is to use xauth--try `man xauth' for more info.
my apologies - i was rather tired when i sent this out... after i su to root i have an alias in bash that does two things: sets the DISPLAY variable and does an xauth merge. i also noticed that i can have up to three terms before the above problem kicks in... tnx, tim -- # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # Debian GNU Linux # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # Power to the people... #### # # # ## # # -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
