Nmap Development: Re: zenmap as root error

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () univie ac at>]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Aaron Leininger wrote:

> I apologize for the delay in getting back to you all on this, my  
> day job has been overwhelming lately.
>
> I tried your suggestion with the following result:
> nonroot$ sudo su -
> myrootprompt# export DISPLAY=:0
> myrootprompt# zenmap
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Segmentation fault
>
> I did some digging on this error in google and I found a response  
> suggesting the error stems from trying to run something in an x- 
> session that is owned by another user.
>
> I opened a root-shell directly and ran zenmap again
> myrootprompt# zenmap
> With the result that it opened normally.
>
> Can anyone tell me why I am seeing this behavior? Why does zenmap  
> segmentation fault out if I open a normal shell and run: sudo  
> zenmap but if I open a root shell, it launches fine. This seems odd  
> to me.
it is odd :) It is definitely a bug. Maybe the GSoCers will get  
around to fixing that.

cheers,
diman

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