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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2001 16:11:52 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Running XfFree86 4 as root
Message-ID:  <20011007161152.A24892@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <eaa9cbeaf113.eaf113eaa9cb@mbox.com.au>
References:  <eaa9cbeaf113.eaf113eaa9cb@mbox.com.au>

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BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> wrote:
> Hiya all,
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help me. I run apps such as mozilla etc as a
> normal user fine under XFree86-4 (built from the ports collection).
> However when I run a graphical application as root I get the following
> message and it aborts:
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

If you read the manpage of xhost(1) you'll find out why this happens.
For the moment, you can just use:

	% xhost +localhost

before you su to root.  This should allow programs to work nicely.

-giorgos

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