Re: [Alug] X server: connection refused

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:53:50PM +0100, Matt Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 6:58 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
> > > ("su -" didn't tho, still got the error).
> > "su -" worked for me, but it would only launch it in the terminal. "su -m"
> > allowed me to have xemacs. I guess I could have ssh'd in, and I don't have
> > sudo installed.
> > Still "su -m" solved the problem adequately enough.
> > Thanks!
> > Ricardo
> 1) Set the DISPLAY environment variable on remote server to point to your 
> machine
> 2) As root on your machine type 'xhost +'
> 3) Run program on remote server

Make sure you only do it this way on a private (and at least
semi-secure) LAN. Doing it over the internet invites nasty people to do
nasty things...

P.