On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? > -chris no users should not run X programs as root. > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is: > > > > # As root > > $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority > > > > ...where $USER is your desired user. > > > > This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority file to root's > > .Xauthority file. Changes to user's .Xauthority file don't effect X. > > X now has access to user's X session, but not vice versa. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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