On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:57:08PM -0500, skamp wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:52 -0500, skamp wrote: > > Thats kinda lame who uses their machine and runs apps as root.... > > uggggghhh, can i install it as root and run it later as the user ?
Many extensions have an install-time option to install in the user's profile. This allows you to install in a place you can write to. > > even worse i cant login to my window manager being KDE as root :) it > doesnt permit root logins :) here we go. On RH, Mandrake and Fedora (that have pam_xauth): su -c firefox - On Debian and SuSE: sux -c firefox - Everywhere: su -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$HOME/Xauthority firefox" - Or, the bad old way: xhost + localhost su - # in the su shell: DISPLAY=:0 firefox -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
