I've been trying to execute a program from the command-line using sudo like so:

sudo -u user_progs /usr/bin/firefox --display=:0.0

But I always get an error like "Display not found."

BTW- This is on a local machine.


What am I missing? Maybe something to do with Xauth or .Xauthority?

Try changing
to
This ought to do the trick for you.

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Rick

Thanks for the reply, rnturn, but that didn't seem to make a difference. It seems you need to run the command:

so that another use can have x display privileges, as it seems. Too bad I came accross an unrelated error that makes this method useless for me.

Case closed,

Simon

Interesting. I've never explicitly run that command. Now I have gone into the configuration editor and configured X to listen on port 6000 (so that I can open windows from other systems). When I tried my modified version of your "sudo" command it worked. Even though "xhost" told me that only "authorized clients can connect". Perhaps OpenSUSE issues that "xauth" command somewhere during X startup.

Sorry to hear that you ran into another roadblock. Try posting your problem here on LQ. There's lot of eyes looking at posts and someone ought to be able to help out.

Later... And "Have a lot of fun..."

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Rick

Xauth give other users authority to reach your X serssion.. By default no one else can use it but its propietary.

The root user seems to be able to access my X display regardless of the permissions (or lack thereof) that "xhost" is showing. Non-root users cannot use my display unless I let them. Even if I supposedly disable access using "host -", I can use the sudo command proposed by the original poster from another system and get access to my display. Seems as though locking down your display can be a bit tricky. (Good thing the firewall is not allowing port 6000 access.)