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[Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Actually.... :-)

Using xhost is way way wrong.

The correct way of doing things is:

On your local machine do

 	xauth list mymachine.mydomain.com:0.0

and you get a reply:

 	mymachine.mydomain.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  37cb47264b485cd2e24ef9421def2a83

Then, on your remote machine do:

 	xauth add mymachine.mydomain.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  37cb47264b485cd2e24ef9421def2a83

That's all.

Your key shouldn't change that often, but when it does, just issue on the
remote machine:

 	xauth remove mymachine.mydomain.com:0

before you add the new key.

Happy remote X-ing :-)

- -tosi


Þann fimmtudagur 01 febrúar 2001 21:29 skrifaðir þú:
> > Actually....
> >
> >   Thats the way I have always had to do it....Why it happens that I can
> > only guess at a security feature (I am taking a guess that it maybe to
>
> do
>
> > with the video group 0660 and maybe not letting anyone outside of it
> > attaching to the X process). I have little idea what has changed in your
> > case...Did you run any updates? Its a security mechanism, do this in a
> > in your terminal screen man xhost.
> >
> > Try my suggestion as I get the same as you do when I do not do the xhost
> > command.
>
> <snip>
>
> > > > Do you log in a user on the system? If so, are
> > >
> > > you running a program
> > >
> > > > via root through a terminal in your X sessions?
> > >
> > > If you are trying to
> > >
> > > > run a program via root then you need to do this
> > >
> > > as the user who
> > >
> > > > started the X sessions:
> > > >
> > > > xhost +localhost
> > > >
> > > > Then you can go in as root and eun your
> > >
> > > program.
>
> This also happened to me.  One of the IT support folk at work showed me
> how to get round it using basically the same fix as suggested.  The only
> difference was in a konsole that was _not root_ I had to type:
>
> prompt> export DISPLAY=<IP address of machine or machine name>:0
> prompt> xhost +localhost
>
> for this to work.
>
> Hope this helps, but please ignore if of no use as I am complete novice.
>
> Mark

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