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Re: different color for root
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: different color for root |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:03:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, Mar 05 2004, Roberto Quiroga wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> escribió:
>
>> But using 'su -' helps being the real root-user, but emacs starts
>> non-graphical. And 'emacs -u root' does not give me root rights. Do
>> you have a third idea?
Either:
$ su -
# export XAUTHORITY=~fabian/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY=":0";
or:
ssh -X root@localhost
> cube:/home/rquiroga $ xhost + localhost
> localhost being added to access control list
Very bad idea. This is a security hole, especially in multi-user
environments.
Fabian, in news:de.comp.os.unix.linux.infos you will find a very good
article (in German) dealing with this. The subject is "Alle Macht dem
User" or similar.
Bye, Reiner.
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Re: different color for root, Fabian Braennstroem, 2004/03/08