How to run GUI admin tools remotely?
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Jan 26 17:26:14 UTC 2009
Chris G wrote:
>
> 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.
>
That's probably the .Xauthority file issue I addressed in my first reply
to this thread. The HOME variable gets overwritten by su
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