Hi Adrian; On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 12:30 -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:06:18AM -0400, William Case wrote: > > > I tried your suggestion. My /home/user1/.Xauthority file only opens > > in emacs and its empty. .Xauthority doesn't currently exit in > > user2. Man has no explantion of .Xauthority. > > It's a binary file; don't open it in Emacs. Have you looked at > the output of > Emacs can open binary files. I don't change anything -- just a quick peek. > ls -l /home/user1/.Xauthority > > to see if it's empty (file size of zero)? File size zero. Regards Bill