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Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Wed Nov 6 13:53:28 1996

Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:50:22 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d wrote:
=2E......
> bagend:~% su
> Password:
> [root@bagend teg]# control-panel &
> [1] 6407
> [root@bagend teg]# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"

Does not work even if you try:

export DISPLAY=3D:0.0

after having su'ed?

Do you have shadiow installed or something? Root is
supposed to be "authorized" to do anything... Hmm,
I am confused. It works on some systems and doesn't
work on others.

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