Re: Strange xauth problem

Jafaruddin Lie wrote:
> I stumbled into this weird problem, wondering if anyone can help me.
> I put my local user account into the wheel group and ran visudo to
> enable wheel group to run commands with root privilidges. Running
> commands from terminal (xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal), except those
> requiring X or GUI works fine. For those that didn't (lets say for
> example I ran
> Code:
> 
> sudo system-config-network
> 
> ), they gave out this message:
> Code:
> 
> [jafar@jafar ~]$ sudo system-config-network Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
> refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ERROR: Unable to
> initialize graphical environment. Most likely cause of failure is that
> the tool was not run using a graphical environment. Please either start
> your graphical user interface or set your DISPLAY variable.
> 
> 
> 
> And this is what
> Code:
> 
> tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> shows:
> 
> Code:
> 
> AUDIT: Sat May 7 00:54:23 2005: 9718 X: client 20 rejected from local
> host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Sat May 7 00:54:24
> 2005: 9718 X: client 20 rejected from local host Auth name:
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried copying .Xauthority from root to my local account, but
> still no go.

It looks like you're trying to access an X display statred by jafar as
root, if you log out of X and log back in as root, then it should work
OK. but this is a dangerous workaround.

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