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Re: different color for root
From: |
Fabian Braennstroem |
Subject: |
Re: different color for root |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:13:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> 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.
Thanks Reiner!
Greetings!
--
Fabian Braennstroem
Duesseldorf/Berlin
Re: different color for root, Fabian Braennstroem, 2004/03/08