[PLUG] Opening X app when su root

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
Sat Sep 18 16:16:02 UTC 2004


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Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
>
>> This way you open your X windows only to your local machine.  Likewise you
>> could add the your systems on your LAN, if you want by issuing:
>>
>> xhost +<host name>
>
> Ken,
>
>    According to 'man xhost' the plus is superfluous but the permissions can
> be granted to either a host or a user. I tried 'xhost +root' and 'xhost
> root' without success in running the spadmin app.

root is not a host name.  localhost is a host name.  8:o)
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