On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 13:36, Havoc Pennington wrote: > 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 > 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. Thanks for the explanation. I'll use su -. That clearly works without the message. I won't file a bug report since this seems to be well understood behavior. Gerry
