On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:04:51PM +0100, BobTFish wrote:
> A good trick for if you want to run graphical applications as root, but
> from a normal user's session is to use ssh.
> As in you install sshd on your machine, make keys and everything then open
> a terminal window as normal and type:
> ssh root@localhost
> This will then prompt your for the root password which you supply and
> voila, you have a root terminal.
> Now, this sounds exactly the same as su, and it behaves as such, except for
> the fact that you can run X applications and have them display on your
> screen :)
This gains you nothing over logging out and logging back in as root in
this case (except that it runs slightly slower because of the encryption
involved). The solution Telsa proposed allows graphical applications to
be run, since everything is on the local machine.
> Another trick to try if you want a *full* X desktop as root that you can
> switch into is to run vnc (www.research.att.co.uk).. This is another story
> though.
Again, this seems like overkill for the problem at hand, since the
question was asking about running things on the local machine.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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