Re: bug in xauth
Re: bug in xauth
- Subject: Re: bug in xauth
- From: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:00:13 +0000
- Thread-topic: bug in xauth
Hi,
I'm trying to be able to display to my own machine as root.
The issue is that I cannot run sudo from my normal account. I have to do this dance:
ssh -Y cook47-a@localhost # change to admin account so I can run sudo
sudo -s # get root with sudo
So what I'm doing is this:
xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh -Y cook47-a@localhost sudo xauth merge -
No luck. I am just trying to be able to display xemacs from a root xterm.
Nothing works yet. Sigh
-- rich
On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 16:01, "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't this work?
>>
>> cook47@rcmac (~): xauth extract - $DISPLAY
>> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/tmp/launch-QOJyhr/org.macosforge.xquartz:0" in "extract" command
>> No matches found, authority file "-" not written
>
> Nope. I have a bug report somewhere to add support for the launchd socket to xauth, but it's not been a critical need.
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> --Jeremy
>
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