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)
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