Re: Using su in X HOWTO

Could someone enlighten me? I suppose this to be a security feature/default
configuration type thing. However, I do this *all* the time on my Mandrake
box, and have never had a problem. On an older version (8.2 I think) I had
problems if I tried to do this over SSH, but could do it from the X console
no problem. On my Mandrake 9/10 boxes I can SSH in, then su to root, and run
whatever I need. Am I missing something?

j----- k-----

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 03:17 pm, bryan@ak.net wrote:
> Here's a brief HOWTO on Gentoo's site that addresses an issue that
> pops up here from time to time. From the site:
>
> "We've all been there, logged in as a normal user, and we need
> to do run some X application as root. Maybe we just want to
> configure a kernel with make xconfig and we get errors when
> we want to do this."
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/su-x.xml

-- 
Joshua Kugler
Assistant Systems Administrator
UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences
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