Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?
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On 06/16/08 11:52, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red
>>>> if you logged in as root.
>>> As did Mandrake, when I left it for Debian. I always thought it
>>> was a good idea.
>> Seems like it would be better to just disallow root logins to X. And
>> to use PGP MIME instead of long-ago deprecated inline PGP.
>
> I use root logins to X, but usually while setting up a system. I work
> better with a GUI. I know that's not a cool thing to say on a geek
> list, but it's the way my brain works.
Must ... Not ... Make ... Comment ...
> When I set up a system, lots of
> times there's mount points to create and other things I need to do that
> involved a program like Konqueror.
>
> Also my clients use a program I wrote that needs to be installed as root
> for some of the setup scripts, but I needed cross-platform GUI
> installer and wasn't going to spend days writing my own, so I settled
> on IZPack, which I like so much I've contributed to it. A console
> installer was not an option because I needed one installer (try
> maintaining 2 installers, one for Windows, one for Linux!) for both
> platforms and needed something for people that think the blue "e"
> stands for Enternet instead of Internet. The result is needing to use
> a GUI installer that has to be run as root. Not my favorite option,
> but a necessary one.
- From an xterm $ prompt, run "su -p". That will let you run GUI
programs as root while logged in as an unpriv user.
> On my system, when I'm testing, I can run Xeypher from the command line
> so it's not a serious problem and have been willing to walk the few
> Linux-using clients of mine through the same process.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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