[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root >permissions.
As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to the location of that file). Then you can just run X programs while inside 'su'. >Launching ssh-keygen resulted in creating a file for the RSA key and a >prompt for a passphrase. The relating manpage reports a required >passphrase of at least 512bits. Key length isn't the same as passphrase length. The recommended passphrase length in that manpage is at least 10-30 characters. >How many bits are need for one char on a Intel mashine 8 on virtually every machine these days (anything with a C compiler has 8-bit chars, to start with), though that isn't important to your problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
