On 16 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 15 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
>> rx
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. Thi
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Normally, I use ssh to give me an xterm where I can type commands as root.
> Before I had ssh, I would su to root and then execute this script, which
> I called 'getcookie':
>
> #!/bin/sh
> pushd /home/remco >/dev/null
> if [ X$DISPLAY = X ]
> then
>
On 15 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 do
> 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.
A shot in the dark... Migh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> 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 m
On 15 Jan 1998, 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 tt
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
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 a
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