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sudo in KDE 3.4.2 not working...

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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 5:08pm

sudo in KDE 3.4.2 not working...

Previous to KDE 3.3 one would simply be able to do a sudo command to run another X app as a different user under KDE. Since I've installed 3.4.2 the other application does not have the right to access the display.

I'm guessing this have something to do with the upgrade to the complete new KDE package, but perhaps not.

Furthermore, doing a "xhost +localhost" does not solve the problem, I am required to do a "xhost +" before it works. This is of course a major inconvenience to running applications as another user.


BTW, anybod know why KDE does not support SUDOing natively rather than just SU'ing...? I hate typing passwords in all the time...

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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 6:14pm

You have very likely also updated your X Server, it is the once that checks X11 authentifcation.

The new syntax for xhost is

xhost +local:username

Where username is the login name of the user you are running the application as, i.e. not your username

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Thursday, October 6th 2005, 5:09pm

I probably did upgrade X as well, I can continue my quest for a proper answer in those forums -- as I understood, and had worked previously, a "sudo" command should take with it the XAuthority, thus I shouldn't need to do an "xhost" command. Am I wrong with that?