Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:47:35 +0200 From: Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm xhosts authorization confusing me Message-ID: <19990916184735.A29127@apotheosis.za.org> In-Reply-To: <37E0FC41.1A1D77F6@confusion.net>; from "Laurence Berland" on Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:18:41AM References: <64092.937488901@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <37E0FC41.1A1D77F6@confusion.net>
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You don't need to use a symlink, there's an environment which you can set: XAUTHORITY. [mwest@localhost] ~$ su Password: localhost# setenv XAUTHORITY ~mwest/.Xauthority (assuming root's shell is csh) localhost# xterm & Alternatively, use "su -m" rather than plain "su". -- mwest@uct.ac.za On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:18:41AM -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: > that would work for one user, but if I want to be able to su to various > different local users, or come to root from different xdm username > logins, that won't work > > Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:11:25 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > > > This is because xdm provides the user who logs in with a cookie which > > must be available later when clients try to display to your X server. > > > > An easy work-around is to provide root with a symlink to your user's > > .Xauthority file as follows: > > > > # cd /root > > # ln -s /home/username/.Xauthority > > > > Obviously, you would substitute for ``username'' whatever username you > > use to log in to XDM. > > > > Ciao, > > Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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