Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
ssh -X -Y email@hidden
sudo nedit myfile.txt
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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That did not work:
jarmac:~ jar$ ssh -X -Y 192.168.1.14
Linux jarhp 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
jar@jarhp:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for jar:
root@jarhp:/var/log/wicd# nedit wicd.log &
[1] 12825
root@jarhp:/var/log/wicd# X11 connection rejected because of wrong
authentication.
NEdit: Can't open display
/etc/sudoers:
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
#Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
