Re: howto make root emacs open in X
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:07:38AM -0600, Harry P wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Hmmm... you must have set up passwordless SSH to root.
Come to think of ... passwordless SSH is quite secure. I was tired :-)
> I hope this sshd
> > is not accessible from Internet. You may be attacked easily.
> >
> > You can set sudo not to request password to become root too. (Setting
> > this up like this also makes your user's system less secure but at least
> > intruders must have shell access first with sudo.)
>
> Probably should really start a new for this but let me ask about
> something above:
>
> First, no the sshd is NOT accessible from internet and it is setup
> with authorized_keys so still some security.
Yes.
> About setting sudo for passwordless... yes I know how to do that, but
> I ran into some confusing problems with environment when using sudo.
>
> For example, many functions I keep in a file on ~/.SYS_RR_ENV that I
> pass from machine to machine (also at /root/.SYS_RR_ENV), these
> functions are unknown to the root I get through sudo.
>
> I know that can be tweaked too but I found it confusing and would
> sooner use ssh which gives full login env.
sudo without -H option keeps $HOME as old user's one. If you want what
you said, use "ssh -H".
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