On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> in win2k i use eudora pro. on freshmeat there are several GUI mail
> clients for gnome, however none of them support pop3 mail!
Mail in Unix is traditionally handled by an MTA (Mail Transport Agent) at
the system level, and then read using an MUA (Mail User Agent).
A very good MTA for POP3 is fetchmail, which is included in most
distributions. It is, at its core, a command-line program, but I wouldn't be
surprised if someone has designed a GUI front-end for it by now.
> ben said something about running the xserver as root.
I don't recall exactly what we were talking about at the time, but it was
likely either:
- A mention of the fact that the X server itself runs SUID to root, in order
to obtain permission to manipulate the graphics adapter.
- Explanation of why I was logging in as root. At one point, we were
playing with the configuration of XFree, and you need to be root to edit
the XF86Config file.
> i have always run it as a user. if i was to run x as root and then
> connect to it. how would i do that?
Not sure what you're after here...
The X server automatically runs with root privileges; you don't have to
worry about that. This is because the X server executable itself has the SUID
(Set User IDentification) bit set, and is owned by root.
If you want to login as root from the console and start an X session, or
login to an XDM session as root, you can do that without any significant
changes to the procedure you follow as a user. You might need to add
"/usr/bin/X11" to root's PATH in some cases.
If you want to "su" to root and then run X programs, you can do that, too.
Start by opening an xterm as a user. Issue "su -" and enter the password.
Then use "export DISPLAY=:0" to tell programs in that session to access the
local display. You may also have to do an "xhost +localhost" before the "su"
command.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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