Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, y'all, > > Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two > little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) > > A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find > them. One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at > a certain partition, allowing it to be used as a boot-floppy image.
rdev > The > other is the command that I use as mattyt so that, as root, I can run make > xconfig. It allows root (or any other user, I suppose) access to the > X-server, when you're not logged in to XDM as that user. The command you're looking for is 'xhost +localhost' but as I'm certain many people will point out DON'T USE IT. It's just a bad habit to get into. (Depending where you learned this command, you may even be thinking of 'xhost +', which is a supremely bad idea on a machine with any kind of net connection). A (much) better way to do what you want is to either use ssh (there was a wonderful command line posted a few weeks ago that showed ssh to root in an xterm), or use xauth as follows: (in an xterm being run by your regular user, when you logged in via xdm as your regular user) cush:~$ su -c "xauth add `xauth list $DISPLAY`" Password: cush:~$ su Password: cush:/home/martind# root can now do as much X stuff as root wants. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
