Who was that said "xhost should be dragged out in the street and shot" or something similar? Probably had more to do with the insecure "xhost +" option than anything else. Try this instead: ssh root at localhost inside of an xterm and then try to run the root owned graphical thingie you wish to display. It should just work. Good luck! >>> peter-clark at bethel.edu 08/20/02 09:35AM >>> On Monday 19 August 2002 23:40, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:29:44PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > This should have a simple answer: there are times when I want processes > > owned by other users to spawn windows in my current X session. What > > settings do I enable / change to avoid the dreaded "Xlib: connection to > > ":0.0" refused by server" and "Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect > > to Server" messages from appearing? > xhost +localhost > man xhost Perhaps just a little more info, please. :) Running as a normal user, I typed 'xhost +localhost' and then switched to a root console and tried opening up 'kmenuedit' but could not connect. The man file was not terribly helpful, although it made me realize that I don't have /etc/X*.hosts files. Restarting the server likewise had no beneficial effect. :Peter