Re: What happened to this list?

[Mario Vukelic <mario vukelic dantian org>]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 06:08 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

> If you su in an xterm and then attempt to run yast, you'll get this 
> error.  There are a couple of solutions, but the easiest one I've found 
> is to copy the .Xauthority file from the home directory of the logged in 
> user into /root, then root will be able to run X progs.  You'll of 
> course need to copy the file as root.

The easiest one is to use sux (su in X) instead of su:
http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml