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Re: "su" Capability Needed In Konqueror



csj wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. But I'm worried. What sort of
> magic does kdesu do? As console (konsole, xterm) root, I can't run
> konqueror.

I'm guessing here, but it's probably just forwarding connections to the
X server with some kind of fake authentication data a la sshd(8).

> alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> konqueror: cannot connect to X server :0

See what Marc wrote in this thread (export XAUTHORITY=~USER/.Xauthority
...).

Cheers,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/



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