Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the > following message: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > Any ideas? > Thanks, > Bryan
Yes, by default XDM/WDM/etc uses magic cookies. Even root doesn't have authority to override this. My solution is that when I log in as a user and then su to root and then need to display some X stuff as root is to run, as root: export XAUTHORITY=~username/.Xauthority;export DISPLAY=:0 Just replace "username" with the login ID you used when you logged in and started up X. Gary
