follow up: xhost: unable to open display ":0.0"
jbk
jbk at mail2.gis.net
Wed Sep 14 22:09:20 EDT 2005
> The mystery is that up until this upgrade to Fc4 I was able to elevate
> myself to root privilege status with "su" and then from that elevated
> status issue "su -" and become root, all maintaining connection to the
> Xserver. Now, I can no longer follow that pattern. If I want to maintain
> connection to the Xserver I must "su -" directly from the unprivileged
> user status.
>
> On the other machine that I did an "install" of Fc4, and then copied
> back the profiles and config files to the user accounts, I can follow
> the old pattern of privilege elevation as I am acustommed to.
>
After finishing yum update the symptom has gone away.
till next
Jim
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