Re: allow display of different user's program window - how?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/29/05

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    Date: 28 Mar 2005 23:19:44 GMT

    On 28 Mar 2005 13:47:33 -0800, hans_schulze98@yahoo.de staggered into
    the Black Sun and said:

    Include context when you post to Usenet. Context restored:

    >Dances With Crows wrote:
    >>On 28 Mar 2005 11:56:16 -0800, hans_schulze98@yahoo.de staggered into
    >>the Black Sun and said:
    >>> kdesu works of course, but then you have to type the password
    >>> everytime you run a program. Many years ago you could set the
    >>> variable DISPLAY and say xhost +localhost, but all that does not work
    >>> any more. (Permissions are set to "secure" in YaST).
    >>http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search and put the string
    >>slrnd3lqat.kd0.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org
    >>into the "find messages with this Message-ID" field, then press
    >>"search". You'll have to change kdm's config file and restart X to
    >>get the xhost thing working as it used to work.
    > Just to make my orig. question precise: I *don't* want to enable the
    > old-style "xhost+whoever" method; I just want 127.0.0.1 to be able to
    > display anything on the screen.

    So what's wrong with "xhost +127.0.0.1", then? Do you think that might
    have something to do with allowing 127.0.0.1 full access to the X
    server? Fix the kdm config file so it doesn't do "-nolisten tcp" and
    you can do that. Quick. Simple. You've already done it before, as
    your previous message shows.

    > Like when using ssh with X (on machines other than mine): opening
    > windows works but no host at all has xhost access.

    You can always do "ssh -l $USERNAME -X localhost", although that'll have
    higher overhead than the xhost thing because you've involved ssh. Or
    you could try using xauth, though the supplied man page for that tool is
    less than useful. 

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