On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Sir you are missing the point. Stop confusing the guy. What you're > saying is based upon an assumption that this trick would be used > whenever root logged in. Now why would that be necessary? If you log > into xdm as root you won't *need* to futz with this stuff because xdm > will have already set it up for you. The *only* reason he'd be doing > this is because he su'd to root while logged in as another user. Note > that I told him to do this *after* he su'd to root. In this case, > .Xauthority will not be written to, only read. And, why the hell would > he want to use ssh? He's doing this on the same frigging machine. He > said he logged in with xdm right? Damn it I hate it when people spread > disinformation like this.
I am sorry if I confused anyone. I assumed that he would get tired of always typing in the same commands every time he does a `su' and that he would put the 'export...' command in root's .bashrc or something like that. If he would do that, there would be a risk that the .Xauthority file would be written by root some day. I find the method with ssh the most convenient one for getting a root xterm on the localhost. I only have to click the menu and type the root password and everything is set up correctly. Do you know of another way that is this simple to use? Oh, and could you wrap your lines at something below 80 characters? Long lines in e-mail messages are also confusing. :-) Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
