[PLUG] ssh and root

Matt Chorman matt at legalizefreedom.org
Thu May 22 10:59:02 UTC 2003


On Thursday 22 May 2003 09:29 am, Michael Montagne wrote:
> This is a tough one for me to grasp.  I've already given up trying to
> get X to run over ssh but now I can't use vim as root, only as me.  I
> get this message:
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> shutdown).
>
> xhost + does not work.

I know this is probably a really stupid suggestion, but have you tried copying 
the .Xauthority file from /home/loginuser to /root? If xhost + is not working 
(for whatever reason) perhaps this will.. Granted, it is a "temporary" 
solution, but who knows?

Matt




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