On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:41:05AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: | On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:40:12PM +0700, Jean Christophe ANDR? wrote: | | > Matt Zimmerman ?crivait : | > > This disables access control in the X server. This is, almost always, a | > > very bad idea. | > | > A better way to allow it (when you switch from normal to root user) : | > | > test@localhost:~$ su - | > root@localhost:~# xauth merge ~test/.Xauthority | > root@localhost:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0 | > root@localhost:~# xterm # or whatever Xwindow program you want to run | > | > I can remember there was some 'su' feature doing it automagically somewhere | > (with RedHat, Mandrake or another one)... | | An easier wethod: | | $ su | # export XAUTHORITY=~user/.Xauthority
This won't work, if ~user is NFS-mounted with the 'root_squash'-option, because 'nobody' won't be allowed to read ~users .Xauthority. Regards, Michael -- Michael Eyrich Technische Universität Berlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
