Re: emacs to run as root from su, in its own X window?
>>>>> On 15 Jun 2002 05:49:06 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> said:
Dan> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has
Dan> been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well.
Dan> This may be a debian specific problem, hence the CC.
Dan> It may be "user lack of understanding". If so, "then beef up
Dan> the FAQs". Or maybe I didn't look. Anyways, I solved the
Dan> problem. I put
Dan> xhost local:root #dangerous? else root can't open an
Dan> emacs window
Dan> in ~/.xsession. Anyways, the problem was:
Dan> How do I get emacs to run as root when I do su, in its own X
Dan> window? $ su
Dan> # emacs
run it as "DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=~name-of-user-running-x/.Xauthority
emacs"
or as someone else suggested use sudo.
Jim
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