root X problem

[George Toft]

Carl Parrish wrote:
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> A long time ago I did something so that X wouldn't have access to X.
> (most of the time this if fine) but now I want to run xcdroast which ha=
s
> to be run as root. So I want to allow root to access X. here is the
> error I'm getting.
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
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> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
> Anybody have any idea how to reset this? So that root can run this
> program?
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Read the manual - it tells you the file you need to make suid root if
you want regular users to use xcdroast.  I found it quite annoying to
become root to burn a CD, so I performed my risk analysis - since I was
the only user on the system, I determined the risk was acceptable, and
chmodded the file.

George
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