* Patrick O Neil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I know this has been asked off and on in the past but...
> I would REALLY like to eliminate this annoyance once
> and for all. My feeling is that as superuser, this
> should NEVER apply, EVER. As su I can do ANYTHING
> and I should not be prevented from connecting to
> display this or that at all.
>
> Basically, I go to su in an xterm and try to run
> linuxconf, control-panel, or whatever and I keep
> getting the annoying message that I cannot connect
> to display :0.0. How do I fix things so that I
> CAN connect to :0.0 as su no matter what?
>
> Please direct me to a howto, faq, or simply tell me
> how I fix this?
>
> patrick
In your ~/.xinitrc (or .xsession if you use runlevel 5), add the line:
xhost +localhost
before the line which starts your wm.
As to your comment:
> My feeling is that as superuser, this
> should NEVER apply, EVER. As su I can do ANYTHING
> and I should not be prevented from connecting to
> display this or that at all.
So if I su on my machine, then I should be able to connect to your X
server and execute commands as root? That's very generous of you, but
also foolish ;)
The reason you can't do it by default is simply security. By default,
other people can't connect to your X server and do stuff. You have to
specifically let them. This is the way it should be.
Tom.
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