[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:31:14PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>
> > % su
> > # ethereal
> >
> > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> > > Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to aspen:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server 
> > > shutdown).
> >
> > # # Argh: 'ssh' doesn't think 'root' should be able to run X apps 
> > through my connection...
> > # exit
> > % su -
> > # export DISPLAY=mylaptop:0.0
> > # ethereal
> >
> > but of course GTK won't premit that:
> >
> >
> > > Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
> > > This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
> > > program instead. For further details, see:
> > >
> > >   http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
> > >
> > > Refusing to initialize GTK+.
>
>
> Why don't you install and configure sudo? It should solve all that.
>
> Just do "sudo ethereal", type your user password or the root password
> (depending on your sudo config) and all is up and running.

Unfortunately, 'sudo' won't solve that problem: the X stuff is still 
run/built by the 'root' user (and, as above, 'ssh' won't let that happen).