[Xastir] missing x11 libraries

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Sun Feb 20 17:04:41 EST 2005


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Curt Mills wrote:

> Whatever user started up X11 has ownership of the screen.  You need
> to play with xhost in order to allow other users access to the
> screen.

That's not strictly true. If you're using xauthority, presumably the 
xauthority file is only readable to and in the environment of the person 
who started x11. but that need not be so, and you can do tricks with sudo, 
xauth list, and xauth add to copy stuff to another user's xauthority file 
if you want to keep it not-world-readable.

But I agree: don't run X as root.




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