From gentoo-user  Wed Apr 30 18:46:46 2003
From: Jonathan Singer <jsinger () genome ! wi ! mit ! edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:46:46 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: More on su
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From brett holcomb:

>> 2) I am unable to launch X apps after su'ing to root (Can't connect to
>> display error), although launching a root session from kdm works fine.
>> Curiously, I only have this problem when running kdm -- when I use gdm it
>> works normally. (Obviously, using gdm would be one solution, but I prefer
>> kdm, and would like to know the cause in any case.)


> 2.  You need to set up the authentication to allow root to
> run X on your display.  IIRC check out xhost as one
> option.

How do Linux distributions normally accomplish this? It's worked in every
distro I've previously used, and even works for me in Gentoo when gdm is
run.


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