On Wednesday 17 October 2018 04:00:37 Morel Bérenger wrote: > Le Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:53:37 -0400, > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> a écrit : > > On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > #1 is ssh -Y has been killed from jessie on. No excuse for doing > > > > it and bug filing is ignored. > > > > > > I don't know what you mean by this. I just performed the > > > following experiment on my stretch workstation (wooledg), in > > > communications with a stretch server (arc3) elsewhere on our > > > network. > > > > > > 1) Already logged into wooledg, I opened a new urxvt window. > > > > > > 2) In this window, I typed: ssh -Y arc3 > > > > > > 3) After authenticating to arc3 with a password, at the shell > > > prompt, I typed: xterm > > > > > > 4) After a moment, a new xterm window appeared on my display. > > > > Thats expected. Now enter synaptic-pkexec. It should ask you, if you > > are user 1000, for a passwd and given it, it will run. But after > > wheezy, its not possible. LinuxCNC's graphics needs are modest, and > > it will run, as the user. But its not root. And root is denied > > regardless of how you go about obtaining root permissions. > > Also, I wonder if you tried to do that through, for example Xephyr? > Might workaround the issue you have?
Well I was just reminded that gksudo works. Now what the heck is Xephyr? Google says its x on x, whatever that means. I'll try to remember that and play with it if its available for wheezy & later. Thanks Morel Bérenger. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
