[techtalk] Problems with vi

[Maureen Lecuona]

It sounds like you are having a problem with .Xauthority file under X11.

Do man xauth and you will see what you can do about it.  Or more simply,
use su -  instead of just su when you switch users remotely.

Maureen Lecuona

lilith at paxumbrae.com wrote:
> 
> Hi. :)
> 
> I am currently running Slackware 7.0 with vim 5.5
> 
> I am encountering an odd error that when I am remotely connected to my
> computer and su to another user (any user, including root), I get the
> following error message:
> 
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Fri Dec  3
> 17:13:43 1999.
> a
> Rejected connection at Fri Dec  3 17:13:43 1999: X11 connection from
> paxumbrae.com port 2804
> 
> X connection to hermes:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions (besides elvis or emacs, etc), I'd really
> appreciate them. I'm a girl who can't live without vi!
> 
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