[FC3] Differences in ssh or Xauthorization...

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Tue Jul 27 09:20:13 UTC 2004


Dwaine Garden <DwaineGarden at rogers.com> writes:

>>In FC3, when I do this, the root xterm cannot get access to my user
>>display.  I get errors like:
>>  Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>>
>>I know about `xhost' and the X11 forwarding of ssh (which is set to
>>YES) but in the past nothing like that was necessary.
>>
>>Anyone know what changes are causing this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Worked fine on my box...

Dwaine.. what does `your box' consist of?  Is it an fully updated
FC3t1 setup.  If so, do you have any custom settings you can think of
that would make yours work and mine not.

When in X, and in your xterm.  If you type  
ssh root at localhost and login.  Can root then run mozilla or whatever?





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