On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:28:48 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > Some people prefer to work from the command > line, even if they're in an X session, so a method of elevating privs > that also preserves $DISPLAY and X auth is useful. > > Having said that, on my workstation sudo preserves $DISPLAY, and X auth > works for me. I don't know why :-) Seems OK over ssh too, so I haven't > worried about it too much!
su works for me in xterms, over ssh, etc. never needed sux myself. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
