On Thursday 12 January 2006 04:53, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 01:46 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:34:56PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > OK - I will play with this but I think you aren't understanding how I > > > am accessing... > > > > > > I am connecting to remote via ssh... > > > > > > ssh -XC user at host > > > > > > I can execute this program no problem by the './startconsole...' > > > > > > But I really want to use a VNC session and run from there...so instead, > > > I have vncserver start as my user and connect... > > > > > > vncviewer localhost:1 > > > > > > Once I authenticate, I am running a VNC session and I can use things > > > like firefox/evolution/etc. > > > > > > I then open a terminal session, su - to root and then execute the > > > command, which is when I get this error. > > > > > > If this explanation helps...I am offering it. Basically, everything I > > > am doing is not on my local machine but rather on the remote to which I > > > am connected via ssh. > > > > Ahhh. > > After you open the terminal session and before running "su -", execute > > xhost +localhost > > > > That should work. > > ---- > BING!!! > > Thanks - sorry I didn't make myself more clear earlier - thanks for the > patience. > > Craig <paranoia> Using xhost almost allways has security implications. In this case any user/process on that machine can do anything to your X-server (including sniffing your passwords). There is malware in the wild that exploits this kind of weakness. </paranoia> /Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellström | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060112/5c98c5a0/attachment-0005.sig>