> > Craig Drummond tracked down the fact that if the user disables 
access 
> controls 
> > (using xhost+), then step 5 correctly reloads the font installer as 

> root. 
> > IIRC, the "xhost+" was not needed previously (say a few weeks ago). 

> So, is 
> > this new behaviour expected?
> > 
> > Thanks, Shaheed
> > 
> 
> Just as a thought - if "xhost +" is needed, then can't startkde be 
> moddified to have "xhost +root" ?
> 

This doesn't work - I looked at the man page for xhost on Solaris and 
it says you can do "xhost +<username>", but the command only accepts 
hostnames...