Re: To use GUI as root
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0100 (IST)
> From: Ciaran Johnston <cj@nologic.org>
> To: Johan Sch <johansche@absamail.co.za>
> Subject: Re: To use GUI as root
>
> Johan Sch said:
> >
> > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be
> > able to use GUI applications.
> >
> > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian.
>
> Set your display as root:
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> then allow localhost access to the display as normal user:
> xhost + localhost
Thus allowing any user with shell on your computer connecting to your
screen (not really a problem if you're only user in the system). If you
are not going to use sux, instead of "xhost + localhost", better run
"xauth list" as user which launched X session, to get list of cookies,
than add as root "xauth add <line which matches your display>". Or set
enviroment variable XAUTHORITY of root to user's ~/.Xauthority. See
man xauth for more information.
Regards,
--
Alexei Chetroi
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