Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:34:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Hi Toshiro >> I'm on ppc Debian. >> >> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:50, Toshiro wrote: >> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to >> > startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't >> > have any problem using a normal user. >> > >> > Anybody know what's the problem? >> >> /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and/or /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf >> >> If you change there this >> AllowRoot=false >> to >> AllowRoot=true >> >> then you should be able to login as root, IINM. >> > > Thanks, but I wasn't trying to log in as root. Not very smart. What I > want is to be able to open a gui editor as root for an Xserver run by a > regular user. > > I found the solution for wdm though, setting > DisplayManager._0.authorize: false > in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config and setting > - > local: > in /etc/X0.hosts > Still a bit lax but ok for single user machines. > I probably need to learn how to use xauth for better security. Let su do all the work for you. Use su -m instead of regular su, or you might consider creating an su alias in your normal user login to su -m -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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