Hi,
I often edit some system related files as root while haveing cat-ed related
(text-) material as user on another terminal.
Trying to do the following under X and with mrxvt as termulator does not work:
sux root
password
vim a system file
(and as user at another termulator-window):
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
I often edit some system related files as root while haveing cat-ed related
(text-) material as user on another terminal.
Trying to do the following under X and with mrxvt as termulator does not work:
sux root
password
vim a system file
(and as user
From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cut'n'Paste via *p and different users
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:28:23 +0200
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
I often edit some system related files as root while haveing cat-ed related
(text-) material as user on another terminal
I was wondering, whether the clipboard-problem is caused
by some (possible wrong) settings of my system or a
normal behaviour of X/mrxvt and whether there are tricks
to make the clibboard working inter-user-al :) ... it
is so cool to use *p !!!
The following information is 100%
From: Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cut'n'Paste via *p and different users
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:19:29 -0500
I was wondering, whether the clipboard-problem is caused
by some (possible wrong) settings of my system or a
normal behaviour of X/mrxvt and whether
XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority gvim file1.txt
The old-school way of doing this was to tinker with xhost to
allow a whole host (rather than a particular user) to connect to
the X server.
The aim is to allow your alternate user (root in this case)
permission to connect to the X server so
