What your trying to do has nothing to do with firewalling. It's an X thing. If you want to start something in X as root while logged in as a regular user then you would have to su to root with the command "sux". This will let you execute GUI programs in X as root. * Paul Elliott (pelliott@io.com) [020119 16:05]: -> ->Q1) ->Does it make sense or is it usefull to talk about the loopback interface ->as a trusted interface? ->FW_DEV_INT="lo" -> ->Or is this in some sense builtin? -> ->Q2) ->Is there any reason while the "root" account can not start a local ->xterm, but other users can? -> ->Password: ->hrnowl:/home/pelliott # xterm ->Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ->Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ->Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. ->The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted ->in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the ->program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. ->xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s ->hrnowl:/home/pelliott # echo $DISPLAY ->:0 ->hrnowl:/home/pelliott # -> -> ->How do I do I change this? Only for the localhost, A similar problem ->is preventing me from doing a "make xconfig" -> ->Thank You. -> ->P.S. ->I would be using the personal firewall rather than SuSEfirewall2 ->except I have to cut a hole for my connection to my ntp server ->for chrony. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...