[TriLUG] Re: running X client as root in other accounts

Joseph Emmanuel O'Doherty jeo4 at duke.edu
Sun Jun 16 19:00:15 EDT 2002


--- Quoth uzoma nwosu ---

>
> # xcdroast
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>

Issue the command "xhost +" so that the root user can connect to your
X session.  Alternatively, you could use sudo to run xcdroast, eg "sudo
xcdroast"

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Joseph E. O'Doherty
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
jeo4 at duke.edu
(919)660-5167




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