Re: pgaccess

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 20:50, paul simdars wrote:
>
> In Xwindow, if I su to root and type pgaccess, the window comes up.
> When I su to postgres or my regular user account and type pgaccess I get
> error messages, they start like this :

This is not a pgaccess error; it is because of the way you are using X
The same would apply if you ran xterm or xeyes.

> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0"

This is because the new user which you have become does not have
authority to use your X session. One way to solve it is to do

export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority

as the user who starts X, which will work if you su to root, but not to
another non-superuser, because that user will not be able to read the
file.

Alternatively do

xhost +localhost

which should allow any user on localhost to connect to your X session

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