I think the MandrakeUpdate program should be changed so that it does not
pop up windows with the process's effective uid set to root, but only have
an effective uid of root when it is doing the
rpm stuff necessary to upgrade the new packages or if run as root.
This might be difficult because it is displaying statistics while doing the
upgrade...
> Dear Alwyn and friends:
>
> This is a key issue. I am a newbie. Could you or someone please spell
> this command out precisely. What does xhost + localhost reall mean? Do
> you have to enter this as a command in xterm or what? Please be specific
> and illustrate it with a real example. I am tired of having to log out
> of KDE and log in back as root to check for updates. You would be doing
> an awful lot of people a great favor by telling us precisely how to do
> this.
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Benjamin
>
> Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> >
> > I've just noticed that in order for MandrakeUpdate to work as normal
> > user, you have to
> > do an
> > xhost +localhost
> > before, otherwise it won't work.
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Alwyn Schoeman
> > Systems Engineer
> > Prism Secure Solutions
>
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> Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Alwyn Schoeman
Systems Engineer
Prism Secure Solutions
