FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

[Duane Whitty]

Oliver Iberien wrote:
> About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a 
> matter of phrasing the Google search correctly:
>
> $ xhost +local:local
> non-network local connections being added to access control list
> $ su
> Password:
> bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin
> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
> bsd#      
>
> ... and it worked. xhosts refers to networks not usernames. You run it as a 
> normal user, then switch to su, then execute the command. I found the answer 
> here:
>
> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2004-Feb/0028.html
>
> Sounds like a really insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the 
> only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this 
> might help someone else down the line.
>
> Oliver
>
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote:
>   
>> In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as
>> far as I know, run the program
>> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default
>> settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in
>> windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a "no protocol
>> specified" error.
>>
>> bsd# setenv DISPLAY ":0.0"
>> bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open
>> display: :0.0
>>    Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
>>    or check permissions of your X-Server
>>    (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
>>
>> I looked at the xhost page and tried:
>>
>> bsd# xhost +root
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>> The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing?
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin
>> with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own
>> folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting
>> ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes
>> nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there
>>     
Sorry,  guess I should have kept reading.  Looks like I misunderstood 
the problem....

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Duane Whitty