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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:14:44AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote:
Normally I log in as a normal user but sometimes I need to su to root
and would like to start for instance an editor, or something like
Gnome-Apt and then I get:
Xlib: connection to
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030327 00:21 PST]:
Try running xhost +local:localhost as the user you initially logged in
as from an xterm or similar program. Things will Just Work(tm) then.
This will work as long as you're the only user on your machine. This is
a bad habit to form if
It is a FAQ but important one :-)
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:14:44AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote:
I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root,
which I found especially useful in the beginning when I was setting up
lots of stuff.
Bad habit.
Normally I log in as a normal
* Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030327 01:41 PST]:
Please, please, please, don't use xhost. Really.
Better alternatives: xauth, su -m, ssh -X
And (oh yeah, duh) sudo.
good times,
Vineet
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From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 AM
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Subject: Newbee-ish X and root question
Hi List,
I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root,
which I found especially useful in
Barry,
su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that
makes the difference?
Thanks!
Lukas
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From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM
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Barry,
su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that
makes
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From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM
To: deFreese, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question
Barry,
su -m surely does it. So what
* Lukas Latz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:21 PST]:
Barry,
su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that
makes the difference?
Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two in question
are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY. The former tells X clients where the
Once upon a time Lukas Latz said...
Barry,
su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that
makes the difference?
The difference is $HOME.
If you use just 'su', your user environment is inherited by the root
shell, except for some variables that get replaced by su. One
Lukas Latz said:
Oops, sorry for that, I never knew..
The DISPLAY env seems to have some hidden aspects that I'll have to read
up on. When I do su (without -m) and then set DISPLAY=0:0 by hand, it
doesn't cut it.
Thanks,
thats because the X server requires authentication to connect to
it by
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From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbee-ish X and root question
Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two
in question
are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY
Lukas == Lukas Latz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lukas Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log
Lukas in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the
Lukas beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff.
GDM will let you log in as root. Edit
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