Subject: Re: After installing YDL 1.2, problems with Xlib: connection to":0.0" refused by server
From: Nathan Hjelm (neo@vyger.penguinpowered.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 09:22:19 MDT
you can set the suid bit on kppp to fix that problem, as for the other,
if you are using x as one user and trying to make a connection to that as
another user it will not work until you tell x to allow connections from
other users on the local machine by typing xhost +localhost
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Harold Bolton wrote:
> I also get the same message when using kppp as a user. I first get asked to
> enter root password and then get the message. If I am logged in in ANY
> other terminal as root then I (as another user) can use kppp just fine. I'd
> like to know how to avoid this minor complication.
> -harold
>
> Harold Bolton
> Data Collection Center
> Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
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> Albuquerque, NM 87115-5000
>
> Phone: 505 846-5646 (ext 3032 for voice mail)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: After installing YDL 1.2, problems with Xlib: connection
> to":0.0" refused by server
>
>
> >pac1@tiac.net's bits of Tue, 11 Apr 2000 translated to:
> >
> >>regardless of the setting of the suid bit on kppp & kppp I get:
> >>
> >>bash-2.03$ kppp&
> >>[1] 658
> >>bash-2.03$ Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> >>Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> >>kppp: cannot connect to X server :0
> >
> >Sounds like you are trying to run kppp as someone other than the user
> >that started the X session. Try doing an xhost + in a shell logged in
> >as the user who started X before doing the kppp. Do a man xhost if you
> >want to be more restrictive with the access control.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >
>
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