display question

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 01:01 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:57:48PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> >> On 05/04/2011 11:48 AM, dan moylan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> when some user owns the gnome desktop, another user
> >>> opereating in a terminal window seems unable to open
> >>> an application that needs the display.  how does one
> >>> allow this?
> >>
> >> The user that owns the display needs to run:
> >>  xhost +
> >>
> >> Then the console user can set their $DISPLAY to 0:0 and it will work.
> > 
> > 
> > Major security risk, do not do this on a networked system, a multiuser
> > system or one in which you don't completely understand the X
> > authentication system.
> 
> Okay, if you don't trust your firewall then you can run:
>  xhost localhost
> instead.

Now you need to trust all your users, including those on other
boxes on your network.

Trust them with your passwords, by the way.

-dsr-

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