Re: Commands

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> Hi, y'all,
> 
> Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two
> little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :)
> 
> A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find
> them.  One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at
> a certain partition, allowing it to be used as a boot-floppy image.

That will be the rdev command.

> The
> other is the command that I use as mattyt so that, as root, I can run make
> xconfig.  It allows root (or any other user, I suppose) access to the
> X-server, when you're not logged in to XDM as that user.

I think you may have used `xhost +localhost', or, even worse, `xhost +'.
Both are potential security risks.  If you are root, but logged in xdm as
user `myself', just type

export XAUTHORITY ~myself/.Xauthority

Eric Meijer

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