ssh -X for synaptic on KDE computer

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Tue Apr 21 14:35:02 UTC 2009


Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> This is what I did:
> ssh -X user at desktop
>
> works ok!
>
> then:
> sudo synaptic
> X11 connection rejected becuase of wrong authentication
> /synaptic:18117): Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0

Did you try "gksu synaptic" or "gksudo synaptic"?

> the same happens when I try to do
> kdesu synaptic

Doesn't work since Hardy: 
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdesudo/+bug/208461>


Nils




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