How to run GUI admin tools remotely?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:48:08AM -0500, Rashkae wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > Session118:
> >         uid = '0'
> >         realname = 'root'
> >         seat = 'Seat1'
> >         session-type = ''
> >         active = FALSE
> >         x11-display = ''
> >         x11-display-device = ''
> >         display-device = '/dev/pts/1'
> >         remote-host-name = ''
> >         is-local = TRUE
> >         on-since = '2009-01-26T15:11:51.675963Z'
> > 
> > 
> > When I do "ck-launch-session" nothing actually happens, nothing
> > appears on the screen or anything, it just returns to the prompt.
> > 
> 
> As far as I can tell, that's what supposed to happen, but if you run
> ck-list before and after, you should notice a new Session owned by
> 'root'.  That's the point where I can then, from that shell, launch the
> gui tools.
> 
It does seem to work mostly as you say now though I'm sure it didn't
before.

This works OK:-
    chris at garage:~$ sudo ck-launch-session services-admin

and this works OK:-
    chris at garage:~$  sudo ck-launch-session
    [sudo] password for root: 
    root at garage:~# services-admin

and this works:-
    chris at garage:~$ sudo -s
    root at garage:~# services-admin
    root at garage:~# 

but this doesn't:-
    chris at garage:~$ su
    Password: 
    root at garage:/home/chris# ck-launch-session
    X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
    root at garage:/home/chris# 

I'm sure I didn't get that X11 error the last time I tried it!  It
still has the DISPLAY variable set correctly, I checked.

Oh well, I can get it to work so that's all I need really.

-- 
Chris Green