[Sheflug] Can't figure xhosts, xauth and Xsecurity.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    Barrie>  Yet it wasn't all that long ago that I did (as root)

    Barrie> xhosts +localhost

    Barrie>  which allowed the nsadmin user to connect to the X
    Barrie> server.

Sounds like you got Xauth'd during an upgrade.

    Barrie>  What I'm trying to do is su from my normal user, to the
    Barrie> nsadmin user, use emacs to do some work, and exit.

Try a different syntax:  xhost +local:.  As mMartin mentioned, you may
need to be more specific about the server with something like xhost -d
:0 +local:.

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