On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:35:37AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:20:05AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: > > I did notice that you can do > > su > > gvim > > :echo SERVERNAME > > > > and then using another user > > gvim --servername=GVIMxx --remote-send='!/dowhatyouwant ;-)' > > > > Thus: If you know your admin is using vim you can easily try to get one > > gvim instance to execute arbitrary commands as super user!! > > Performing a simple "su" saves the environment that you su'ed from. If > you instead ran "su -", I imagine this would not work. su - does work also.
When using ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can start gvim but v:server isn't set Using Ctrl-Meta-F4 Login as root a can't connect to X in any way .. (even when using xclock -display :0.0 or DISPLAY=:0.0 xclock) Can you recommend some documentation so that I won't make alerts like this again? Marc
