On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > What does that have to do with a local box? I'm talking on a single > box, I just don't see how ssh to yourself is better than su - case 1: bash-2.05b$ su - Password: [root@couch root]# xterm Xlib: connection to "localhost.localdomain:0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s [root@couch root]# case 2: bash-2.05b$ ssh root@localhost /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm root@localhost's password: Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate... The following connections are open: #1 X11 connection from 127.0.0.1 port 33014 (t4 r0 i2/0 o0/0 fd 9/9) bash-2.05b$ [this worked, and the X term, as root, popped] Perhaps you might experiment before you post ... -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
