On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:49:58PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote, on 24/07/10 16:29: > >On Sb, 24 iul 10, 09:18:04, Arthur Marsh wrote: > >> > >>xhost + > > > >This is insecure: > >http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/xhost-plus-2010-06-29-22-42.html > > > >Regards, > >Andrei > > Agreed about the " xhost + " being insecure but it took a few tries > to work out the correct incantation: > > $ xhost +SI:localuser:root > > The xhost manual page doesn't really say what the "SI" does, nor > does it mention "localuser" only "local". > > There are some X basics I'm unfamiliar with /-:. > > Arthur. > I must be incredibly at risk for dangers I didn't even know I should know. To run gfdisk I just opened at terminal in X Windows, entered su and my root password, ran the program and, when finished, entered su tom.
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