On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Larry Brown wrote:
> I have tried
> to use suid to run the script as me, but when running the script as
> another user it fails to connect to 0:0 due to security. Temporarily I
> can bypass that security by allowing another user to connect to my
> x-server, but I don't think I can do this from cron.
Issue the command 'xhost +' to allow all users access to X-Windows host
and try running it again from cron. If that works, it's a permissions
issue and you may have to add the xhost command to your X startup
process.
I run into this frequently on more recent distributions when I'm logged
in as a user and try to run a command in xterm as root. Issuing 'xhost
+' fixes this.
Steven W. Buehler | swbuehler@yahoo.com
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