Oops! (Re: Repair Grub Files?)

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:37:45 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 03 June 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > I get the same using "xhost" or "sudo xhost" but "sudo -i" and "sudo su"
> > don't work:
> 
> Try  xhost  +
> 
> When I want to su to root in a Konsole session, I use this script:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> xhost +
> su
> 
Yes, of course this will work - what is puzzling is the fact that on
Feisty, starting kate or indeed any X app from a root shell in a user's
session appears *not* to fail, regardless of "xhost"

The puzzlement is increased by the fact that Derek sees the expected
behaviour 

" root at othello:~# xhost
 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
 Xlib: No protocol specified
 xhost:  unable to open display ":0"  "

I don't - and as far as I know I have not tweaked this at all .

Peter