On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> said: > 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: > > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to > > various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a > > second machine and keeping careful notes about the password to see if > > that will work. I really like the idea of working with DEBIAN and hope > > I can get past this issue. > > Dick Bayerl > > > > > > Hi, don't login as root in X, instead deactivate temporarily X-session > access control, and launch desired gui tool as root: > > xhost + > > sudo whatever_gui_tool
NOT xhots + !!! If you have to widen, just do xhost +local: First command opens to the whole internet, second one only to connnections from localhost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
