Re: Annoying problem with GTK apps
Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 16:36 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg a
> écrit :
>> In article <[🔎] 1112977422.10124.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>,
>> Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu> wrote:
>> >
>> >this is a security feature ; to disable it, as "normal" user, type
>> >"xhost +", then proceed as root
>>
>> It's a bad, bad idea to disable security features like these.
>
> It depends. In the absolute, it is.
>
> If you know a less insecure way to achieve the same effect, I'll take
> it !
> Aurélien.
There are a number of ways, most of which are less dangerous than
"xhost +". IMO the simplest is:
$ dpkg -s sux
[...]
Description: wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials
Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer
your X credentials to the target user.
.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/
( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ )
regards,
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