On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Stefan Troeger wrote: st> Hi, st> st> On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 18:30 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: st> st> > Following a suggestion I saw here earlier, I included the command st> > st> > xhost + st> > st> > in my system-wide profile so that I could initiate X programs under st> > any user name from any X terminal. st> > It seems to work, but it also generates the gratuitous error message st> > at login: st> > st> > xhost: unable to open display "" st> > st> > Is there a way to make that message go away? The man page is st> > unhelpful on that point. st> st> export DISPLAY=":0.0" should help. But it's probably not a good st> idea to do a xhost + as this allows anyone to make connections st> to your X server (AFAIK this can also be used to spy out what st> you're typing). Better use xhost +localhost so that only local st> users can connect or _even better_ don't use xhost at all but st> xauth instead (see the Security-HOWTO, man Xsecurity, man st> xauth). st> So with this method, what would you do, stick a line like the following in the root's .xinitrc file xauth generate :0 . or would you do an extract and merge of some sort? st> Ciao, st> Stefan st> st> st> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/