On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > So I want to log in to X as one regular (non-root) user, and then allow > a different regular user to run X apps. > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Okay, got a few different suggestions on this. Here are my results:
xrdb -merge ~<xserver-user>/.xauthority
executed silently, had no impact on my situation.
(I tried it before Vineet posted the correction below)
xauth -merge ~<xserver-user>/.xauthority
gave me a usage message, so I did:
xauth merge ~<xserver-user>/.xauthority
which executed silently, but had no apparent effect.
Got a suggestion off-list saying to set up x-forwarding in ssh, but
that seems like unnecessary use of resources (why encrypt traffic
that's not leaving my local machine?)
But...
xhost +local:
did exactly what I wanted.
So now I'm left wondering why it is that xhost is inherently evil, and
just how evil... (Is it worth the research it'll take me to figure
out what xauth is all about and make *it* work?)
Thanks
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