How to run GUI admin tools remotely?

[Rashkae]

Rashkae wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> I have a backup system in my garage on which I have installed xubuntu
>> 8.10.  It would be really useful to be able to administer it remotely
>> from my desktop system in my house (also xubuntu 8.10), but none of
>> the GUI systems/services admin tools will work because of X security. 
>> I always get something like the following:-
>>
>>     root at garage:/usr/bin# services-admin
>>     X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>>
>>     (services-admin:7307): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0
>>
>> Running *user* programs remotely works fine so I have ssh running such
>> that X is working OK.  I have also tried all sorts of 'xhosts +'
>> commands on the local system such that there should be virtually no X
>> authentication at all but I still get the above error.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
>>
> 
> Use sudo -s to get your root shell instead of sudo -i.  That will
> preserver your environment variables.
> 


Alternatively, you can copy the .Xauthority file from the user home
directory to your root home directory.  However, using sudo -s (or su
-m, if you use su) will preserver the HOME environment variable, which
will retain the correct .Xauthority