[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

[Michael Mol]

Theory goes, one shouldn't be using host-based authentication, but use
the magic cookies.[1] When I try[2], though, I get the same errors
Eric got.

[1] God knows what they put in them...
[2] On my local network, layers 2 and 3 are secure, so I'm messing
with X11 over TCP. Also, X11 over SSH is crashing some programs for
me, where X11 over TCP doesn't.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Godwin <geektoyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Generally,  the "xhost" command grants X access to others in your session.
>
> G-
>
> On Sep 22, 2011 3:42 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Try "su -" instead of "sudo su".
>>
>> I think the big problem here is going to be that X11 doesn't give a
>> darn about Linux privileges; X authentication handshaking needs to
>> happen.
>>
>> I haven't mastered the manual side of that art myself, so, for now, I
>> use programs like gksudo to handle it for me.
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