On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:43:29 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > so you can run an X app after su'ing in an xterm? thats unusual because > unless you take some explicit step other users (incl root) are not > allowed to access your X server.
Sometimes, when Julia is logged in as herself and I want to check my email, instead of logging her out, I start an xterm, type "su yuri", my password, then "kontact &" and it starts up my mail client as an X app. I thought this was normal and didn't realise other people need to jump through ropes to do the same. I've never typed an "x" after "su". This is on Mandrake 10.0 with mostly default options when I installed (the only thing I remember changing is the international keyboard thing that let's me make accented letters by typing " ~ ' ` or ^ before a letter). > Maybe because of the enigmatic way this thread was started, some people > have missed the point. sux works the same as su, but also does some > little tricks with X authorisation so the the user you sux'd to can run > X apps. its safer than using xhost + or xhost +localhost. > > Actually sux was discussed on this list some months ago, yuri mentioned > it - i thought at first that it was a SuSE'ism, but on investigation > that is not so. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
