Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:11:03PM -0700, Gary Hennigan > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My preferred solution is to su to root and do: > > > > export XAUTHORITY=~myusername/.Xauthority ;export DISPLAY=:0.0 > > > > I think there are still some security concerns even w

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-20 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Nov 01 21:25:47 GMT, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. > > I w

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:11:03PM -0700, Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > > > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 09:11, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > 'xhost +localhost' should fix the problem (this allows connections to > > your x session from your local machine). This actually gives me GTK+ errors and doesn't work. > > My preferred solution is to su to root and do: > > export XAUTHORITY=

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Are you exporting your .Xauthority file? In .bashrc should be a line like: export XAUTHORITY='/home/login_name/.Xauthority' This should allow you X access as root without xhost TRS David Wright wrote: When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread DvB
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. > > I would like to do this on Debi