On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:22:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:14:55PM +0200, tom wrote: > > howdy guys, > > > > This is one of those things that has > > been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I > > edit files that require su privilages? (like /etc/fstab). I > > usually su from eterm and "jed filename". can I su from within > > emacs? nedit? > > I use this method > > [Gianluca][~] => xhost + localhost > localhost being added to access control list > [Gianluca][~] => su > Password: > [ROOT][gianluca] # >
Not so good if there are other users logged into the workstation. I prefer $ ssh -l root localhost if I want to run X applications as root while logged in as an ordinary user. Easy to remember, and it just works. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
