Re: Speaking of logging in as root...
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:20:46AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> No, I'm just doing "su". Should I be using "su -" instead ?? I just saw a
> message from Paul Johnson who said "Use su -m instead." Not being at my
> Debian box at the moment, what's that do ??
su -m passes your current environment to your new one, thus your Xauth
gets passed on to root (and things running from that su can connect to
your X display).
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
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