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Re: [SLE] SU can't connect. Why?
  • From: zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:52:20 -0400
  • Message-id: <20030509085220.08ff80ab.zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 9 May 2003 07:46:50 -0500
Michael Satterwhite <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>This one has to be simple, but I can't find a reason.
>
>I open a Konsole, run emacs, everything is fine.
>I enter su and the password, try to run emacs and get the following:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>When I tried to run the mozilla 1.3.1 installer as su, I get the same error.
>It looks to this relative newbie that there is something configured that su
>doesn't have, but what's the missing piece?

Try running "sux" instead. Just a reminder, the $path is limited for root
when running sux, so you may need to enter full paths to executables.

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