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from my Sun days don't you need xhosts + set? On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 12:56 +0000, Tom wrote: > On 21/01/14 12:01, Philip Hudson wrote: > > > Given admin privileges, how can a remote user, connected into a > > debianoid (actually Mint Debian Edition) host with an ssh shell > > session, dismiss the locally displayed *dm greeter and start their > > own desktop session, effectively as if they had logged in locally > > using the greeter? I know it seems like a weird thing to want to do, > > but I'm just frustrated that I can neither remember how nor figure > > it out. > > > > > > What I've tried is stopping the *dm service via /etc/init.d then > > killing any remaining *dm and associated greeter sessions, then > > running either 'env DISPLAY=:0.0 startx' or 'env DISPLAY=:0.0 > > xinit', both failing thus: > > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > xinit: giving up > > xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused > > xinit: server error > > > > > > My investigations have taken me searching for xauth-ish stuff deep > > in the bowels of /var, but not finding anything resembling the > > documented files. > > > > -- > > Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz > > @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 > > > > > > > I think you have to use a remote client of some form (VNC?) or you can > ssh -X into the machine which allows you to run things on the remote > machine that come up on your local X screen. You dont even need X > running on the remote machine to do this. > Tom te tom te tom -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq