[PLUG] ssh and root

Steve Bonds 1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com
Thu May 22 11:13:16 UTC 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Matt Chorman matt-at-legalizefreedom.org |PDX Linux| wrote:

> 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?

Setting your XAUTHORITY environment variable (as root) to the full path of
your individual .Xauthority file also works.

This way SSH has the proper authentication info for the funky DISPLAY it
creates.

  -- Steve





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