Opening GUI as another user

[Rob Blomquist]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 10:51, Henri Girard wrote:
> on sudo user run :
> xhost +
> and then on test : DISPLAY=:0 firefox
> good luck
root at timmy:~# xhost +
xhost:  unable to open display ""
root at timmy:~# DISPLAY=:0 firefox
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

So what do I need to do to get this to work?

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