Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-11 Thread Damjan
On вто, 11 фев 2014 13:41:08 CET, Martti Kühne wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Damjan wrote: why don't you just use sudo? $ sudo env ... DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/damjan/.Xauthority ... those are propagated by default (I don't remember setting this up) -- дамјан Well... locally

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-11 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Damjan wrote: > > why don't you just use sudo? > > $ sudo env > ... > DISPLAY=:0 > XAUTHORITY=/home/damjan/.Xauthority > ... > > those are propagated by default (I don't remember setting this up) > > > -- > дамјан Well... locally, at least, that's exactly why I ne

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Damjan
On 01.02.2014 04:55, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: I want to run root X application in a terminal. [root@archbox ~]# smplayer smplayer: cannot connect to X server [root@archbox ~]# I followed the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root added export XAUTHORITY=/home/a

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Heiko Becker
Am 10.02.2014 13:34, schrieb Martti Kühne: On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: Hey, I cannot reproduce your exploit. I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I was enumerating the 2 or 3 more obscure ways to configure this (and tbh, I'd be looking for a while to find these), wh

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: > Hey, > > I cannot reproduce your exploit. > I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I was enumerating the 2 or 3 more obscure ways to configure this (and tbh, I'd be looking for a while to find these), which I basically worked around in my .bas

[arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-03 Thread Heiko Becker
Hey, I cannot reproduce your exploit. Using the stock sudoers file only with the modification %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL and the place for running X applications as root is commented out. ## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the ## .Xauthority file. Note that other programs use

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-03 Thread Martti Kühne
Hey guys I'll just throw my more local (than probably necessary) .bashrc function in here... sudo () { local env; if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]; then command sudo "XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority" "$@"; else command sudo "$@"; fi } You don't give up on X11 cookies, you don'

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Maykel Franco
El 01/02/2014 13:14, "piruthiviraj natarajan" escribió: > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > All the methods in the wiki are inconvenient, this one is - on the > > contrary - extremely convenient. > > > > > sorry! my bad, I misread as 'inconvenient' in your first post.

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > All the methods in the wiki are inconvenient, this one is - on the > contrary - extremely convenient. > sorry! my bad, I misread as 'inconvenient' in your first post. Clearly my mistake. I have added your advice in the wiki. I hope it he

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 10:06, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the >> wiki. Add the line >> >> session optionalpam_xauth.so >> >> to /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/s

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the > wiki. Add the line > > session optionalpam_xauth.so > > to /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/su-l. Then switch to your root user > using 'su' or 'su -'. > H

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 04:55, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > I want to run root X application in a terminal. > > [root@archbox ~]# smplayer > smplayer: cannot connect to X server > [root@archbox ~]# > > > I followed the wiki > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root Again, the mos

[arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-01-31 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
I want to run root X application in a terminal. [root@archbox ~]# smplayer smplayer: cannot connect to X server [root@archbox ~]# I followed the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root added export XAUTHORITY=/home/archie/.Xauthority to /etc/profile. After this I am