Date: 16 Sep 1999 15:47:47 -0400 From: Kevin Street <street@iname.com> 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: <87ogf2wsd8.fsf@mired.eh.local> In-Reply-To: Laurence Berland's message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:18:41 -0400" References: <64092.937488901@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <37E0FC41.1A1D77F6@confusion.net>
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Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> writes: > 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 Another easy way to do this is to use ssh to login to the various ids rather than su. ssh automatically does forwarding of the X connections and establishes its own cookies. It has the advantage that you don't have to open up your X security to everyone on the local machine with xhost +localhost. ssh -l user localhost (assuming you've installed ssh from the ports) -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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