Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 1/12/22 9:38 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: On 11/01/2022 19:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 1/11/22 11:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su -

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 11/01/2022 19:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

Hi L, > How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? > I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with > windows OS. Seeing as no-one has said this, yet: *** Running things as root is ill-advised. *** While running a file manager as root to deal with some user file

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

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Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su - or sudo to get an interactive session for

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 1/11/22 10:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app from prompt with & to release it from Terminal. Kind of works. I use Xfce and have this one liner to run Thunar as root: beesu - thunar

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 11/01/2022 17:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app

Re: sudo su

On 05/29/2017 12:17 PM, fred roller wrote: > >> On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: >>> you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged > on as well. >> >> I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I > ran who, it >> just showed me, logged in once and no root.

Re: sudo su

> On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: >> you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. > > I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I ran who, it > just showed me, logged in once and no root. Checking with uptime, it > shows one user. I never

Re: sudo su

On 05/28/2017 01:04 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Nope, completely myth, and here's why: "sudo su -l" is absolutely the fastest and most efficient way to get a root login shell where the PATH is set correctly "-i" is faster than

Re: sudo su

Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 27 May 2017 21:36:29 -0600 > Peter Gueckel wrote: > >> Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the >> programs that root needs"? > > Well, root tends to have /sbin which "normal" users don't > have by default. There may be others, also there

Re: sudo su

On 28 May 2017 at 15:16, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 27 May 2017 21:36:29 -0600 > Peter Gueckel wrote: > >> Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the >> programs that root needs"? > > Well, root tends to have /sbin which "normal" users don't > have

Re: sudo su

Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: >> you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. > > I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I ran who, it > just showed me, logged in once and no root. Checking with uptime, it > shows

Re: sudo su

On Sat, 27 May 2017 21:36:29 -0600 Peter Gueckel wrote: > Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the > programs that root needs"? Well, root tends to have /sbin which "normal" users don't have by default. There may be others, also there can be aliases and such in root's

Re: sudo su

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > Correcting my off-list post by cc-ing back to the list ... once again, my > apologies No harm done, no apologies necessary :) ___ users mailing list --

Re: sudo su

On 05/28/2017 02:21 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 05/28/2017 01:40 AM, Tom H wrote: You replied off-list On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 05/28/2017 01:04 AM, Tom H wrote: "-i" is faster than "su -l" :) huh? sudo -i is faster than

Re: sudo su

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Nope, completely myth, and here's why: "sudo su -l" is absolutely > the fastest and most efficient way to get a root login shell > where the PATH is set correctly "-i" is faster than "su -l" :)

Re: sudo su

On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I ran who, it just showed me, logged in once and no root. Checking with uptime, it shows one user.

Re: sudo su

On 05/27/2017 08:36 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the programs that root needs"? Here's root's path on my box: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin ___ users mailing

Re: sudo su

On 27May2017 21:36, Peter Gueckel wrote: OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. Well, closing a terminal emulator should normally sent SIGHUP to processes still on the terminal. Which may or may not exit (most will). And then there's job control and "disown"ed jobs

Re: sudo su

you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. > > Yes, I do have my system set up not to require the password for > sudo. It is faster than constantly

Re: sudo su

OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. Yes, I do have my system set up not to require the password for sudo. It is faster than constantly having to type it, time and again. System installation is hell without it ;-) Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the programs

Re: sudo su

On 05/27/2017 07:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:48:06 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: First, running sudo su is redundant if you know the root password, as I presume you do. (It's your system, you installed it and assigned the root password.) In fact, the only reason to use sudo at

Re: sudo su

On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:48:06 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > First, running sudo su is redundant if you know the root password, as I > presume you do. (It's your system, you installed it and assigned the > root password.) In fact, the only reason to use sudo at all is if you > don't know the root

Re: sudo su

On 05/27/2017 06:09 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did closing the tab do the same thing as a proper exit? First,

Re: sudo su

On Sat, 27 May 2017 19:09:59 -0600 Peter Gueckel wrote: > I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to > obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to > exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did > closing the tab do