Make sure your /etc/sudoers file on the remote host saves your DISPLAY
and whatnot:
Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
--Jeremy
On Aug 26, 2008, at 19:52, James Rome wrote:
I want to login to my Ubuntu machine and do X as root. But it does
not work:
jar@jarhp:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for jar:
root@jarhp:/home/jar# cd /etc
root@jarhp:/etc# nedit wpa_supplicant.conf &
[1] 16270
root@jarhp:/etc# X11 connection rejected because of wrong
authentication.
NEdit: Can't open display
How do I solve this?
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