[SunRescue] Dumb question of the week

[Ed Pate]

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&%*@&#!  Why is it that you never see that somebody else has already
answered it until AFTER you post the answer, too????

Ed

Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Stefan Hames wrote:
>
> > I'm running Solaris 7 on my SS5/170 as a regular user, not root.  I
> > tried to run ArcView on the same machine and got an error message
> > instead:
> >
> > redtail% arcview
> > [1] 3348
> > redtail% Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
> Not really a dumb question.  My first question is who are you logged
> in as?  i.e.  Who started the X server?
>
> I'm betting root did.  It's coincidental that root works, it's not
> a superuser thing, it's X permissions (xauth).
>
> The quick easy workaround is "xhost +localhost".  But this allows
> ANY user on the local box to throw things at your screen.  As one
> who participated in X "fights" back in college, I can say this leaves
> you open a bit.  The better way to fix it is to look at the man page
> to xauth, since I still don't understand the better way =)
>
> --Kurt
>
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