"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > > 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'. > > > > This works nicely - thank you very much! > > No! Don't do this! By doing so you are lowering the security level of > your machine down to your user account. It's bad enough that security > depends on a root account; it should *never* depend on a user account.
Lowering only the X11 root permissions or the permisions of all apps? I tried to edit /etc/passwd by user "rland" and it did not work. So file restrictions do not seem to be affected by root accessing .Xauthority in the rland ~/. Robert