On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:52:13AM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote: > When I open a file in gedit from a root terminal session, I get the > following message. > > (gedit:6111): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. > > The editor opens and works fine. Is this a bug that needs to be > reported, or is there some configuration item I need to change to get > rid of the message? > Basically you will get that message if gedit can't authenticate to the session manager. To authenticate, the root gedit needs to read ~/.ICEauthority in your user's home directory. However, a root gedit doesn't know which user's .ICEauthority file to look at. It tries to read /root/.ICEauthority and that doesn't do any good, thus the failure. To just quiet the message you can use "su -" instead of "su" to avoid inheriting the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable. To make it actually work, you can set ICEAUTHORITY=~user/.ICEauthority (much as XAUTHORITY is already set). However, you don't really want root to connect to the SM (since the SM can't restart a program running as root), it is probably more right to unset SESSION_MANAGER for root. I can't quickly think of how we would do that automatically without breaking the case where the SM itself is running as root (an entire root GUI desktop session). Of course, I don't think you should log in to a whole desktop as root, so maybe that's OK. ;-) The right fix may be for the session manager to automatically not restart applications that are running as a different user. But still let those apps connect, so that they are able to exit cleanly on logout and such. Havoc
