From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 24 17:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15A3A14A2D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 17:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 10729 invoked by uid 0); 25 Apr 1999 00:46:17 -0000 Received: from smf-k3.facsmf.utexas.edu (HELO J1.utexas.edu) (128.83.104.53) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 25 Apr 1999 00:46:17 -0000 X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:46:41 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Weiss Subject: kde not allowing root to execute some commands? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19990425004620.15A3A14A2D@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having problems with my root account executing programs from a command prompt. I cannot run things like "netscape &", "gimp &", "x11amp &"...I get the following message: freebsd# Xlib: connection to ":0:0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Can't open Display <--this message varies; depends on which app is trying to be run The other message I get is "command not found" My personal account (kweiss) works fine with. Yet, when I have the root use KDE, all the apps work fine. Anyone know what's going on? Thank you in advance :-) PS - I can easily test this out by "su"ing the root, and not having the app run, then I exit, and I'm back to my kweiss account, and then run something like "netscape &" Kevin Weiss kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message