On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 14:21, Henrik Enberg wrote:
Bill Spears <bspears@easystreet.com> writes:
So I tried emacs /etc/lilo.conf from an xterm and got error:
emacs couldn't connect to Xserver and some suggestions about
xhost, which didn't work. ... use it
as root sometimes (anybody knowing how to use a user started Emacs
`xhost +localhost' will let you run X apps when su'ed to root. This is
however a terrible idea security-wise. A much, much better approach is
to do `emacs -nw' so Emacs runs in a terminal window without X.
Consider installing the sudo package and using that to perform
operations as root. With sudo installed and configured, I can run
X applications and not compromise X security.
All you have to do is add a line like:
YourUserId ALL=(ALL) ALL
in the /etc/sudoers and you can use sudo to do everything that you
would do as root. /etc/sudoers should be edited using visudo.
Steven