[UCLA-LUG] help with xscreen saver

[Drew]

Actually... in addition to that...... you might also want to make urself
a regular user account, it seems that you are logging in as root, which
in many cases may be a "bad thing". Logging in as a regular user may
prevent things like destroying your whole system by a slip of a command.

/usr/sbin/adduser <name>
passwd <name>

then just log in as your new user

Drew


Dan Helfman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 06:22:49PM -0700, Luis wrote:
> > I loaded red hat 6.2 on my box . When i was ready to go home, i tried to
> > set up my screen saver but i keep on getting a error message . when i tried
> > to go into the xscreensaver it told me
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0
> > xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0)
> > xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99)
> >
> > xscreensaver: Errors at starup are usually authorization problems
> >
> >                       Did you read the manual on the faz? Specifically the parts of the manual
> > that talk about XAUTH, XDMA and root logins?
> >
> > Well thats the whole message that i get when i try to run the xscreensaver
> > . so would anyone out there be able to help me out with this problem
> 
> Try typing:
> xhost +localhost
> 
> If that dosen't work, let us know.
> 
> >
> >
> > Luis
> 
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> Dan Helfman
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