Re: login as root to GUI
20/05/2011 11:49, Erwan David wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "tv.debian@googlemail.com" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> said:
>> 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote:
>>> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
>>> the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to
>>> various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a
>>> second machine and keeping careful notes about the password to see if
>>> that will work. I really like the idea of working with DEBIAN and hope
>>> I can get past this issue.
>>> Dick Bayerl
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi, don't login as root in X, instead deactivate temporarily X-session
>> access control, and launch desired gui tool as root:
>>
>> xhost +
>>
>> sudo whatever_gui_tool
>
> NOT xhots + !!!
> If you have to widen, just do xhost +local:
>
> First command opens to the whole internet, second one only to connnections from localhost.
>
>
Thanks for correcting me, it's good to know it if the firewall allows
connections from the outside. Otherwise the security risk seems pretty
low, or am I missing something juicy here ?
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