rada and gus wrote:
$ cat /usr/X11R6/bin/sux ... # Copyright 2000 SuSE GmbH # Copyright 2004 SuSE LINUX AG # Author: Werner Fink
Hello I guess you have discovered another new headachce caused by security. While logged in as a user In a xterm or konsole log in as root (su or sux), try to execute anything. Error! Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key myprogram: cannot connect to X server :0.0 This is another reason that root is not equal to "su" or "sux" Error! cannot connect to X server mysite.org:0.0 Remember that you have been told you should not be logged in as "root". That is evil! Long and short is that SuSE and/or X.org have rigged xlib for security (I guess) that root can not share the X server with a user. I think this started around SuSE 9.0 This is similar to the permission problems found in the past with xcdroast and a /dev/cdrom. root was told xcdroast was dangerous and a user could use the CD but xcdroast would work. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316