From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 03:32:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D118216A404 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CE843D45 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:32:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip02.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.10]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IXC00KFP1U81X00@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:32:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip02.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:32:48 -0300 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:31:43 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <200604061819.54499.oliver.iberien@charter.net> To: Oliver Iberien Message-id: <4435DD1F.5010001@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <200604061808.19808.oliver.iberien@charter.net> <200604061819.54499.oliver.iberien@charter.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:32:48 -0000 Oliver Iberien wrote: > About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a > matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: > > $ xhost +local:local > non-network local connections being added to access control list > $ su > Password: > bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin > I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" > bsd# > > ... and it worked. xhosts refers to networks not usernames. You run it as a > normal user, then switch to su, then execute the command. I found the answer > here: > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2004-Feb/0028.html > > Sounds like a really insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the > only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this > might help someone else down the line. > > Oliver > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote: > >> In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as >> far as I know, run the program >> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default >> settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in >> windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a "no protocol >> specified" error. >> >> bsd# setenv DISPLAY ":0.0" >> bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: No protocol specified >> >> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: No protocol specified >> >> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open >> display: :0.0 >> Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option >> or check permissions of your X-Server >> (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details) >> >> I looked at the xhost page and tried: >> >> bsd# xhost +root >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: No protocol specified >> >> The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing? >> >> Oliver >> >> PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin >> with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own >> folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting >> ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes >> nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there >> Sorry, guess I should have kept reading. Looks like I misunderstood the problem.... -- Duane Whitty