[ale] re: Adobe Acrobat reader won't open file, huh ?....

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you Bjorn, but this machine runs off a CD and I'm unconcerned with 
anyone tampering, which is most unlikely as it's on my personal network 
which is almost never online.

Cordially,
Courtney


Bjorn Roche wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Josh Freeman wrote:
> 
>> are you su a different user than the one yo logged in as? It seems that
>> whichever user is running acroread doesn't have permissions to the local
>> X session. You can try xhost + localhost and see if that solves it.
>>
> 
> This is a good thing to try, but note that there are security 
> implications to xhost + localhost (I understand that this lets anyone 
> else on your machine listen to your keystrokes) so it's neither a good 
> permanant solution nor a good thing to do on a multi-user machine.
> 
>     bjorn
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