Re: sudo in X-environment
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Артур Истомин wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop.
> > >
> > > Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do
> > > about it other than logging into the xserver as root - which I do not want
> > > to do:
> > >
> > > $ sudo system-config-printer
> > >
> > > No protocol specified
> > > error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
> > > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
> > > No protocol specified
> > >
> >
> > xhost +
> > sudo system-config-printer
> > xhost - # don't forget to do it after you're done with system-config-printer
>
> 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use
> xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost +
> si:localuser:root', this would allow only root from the local machine to
> connect. Just be sure to run 'xhost - si:localuser:root' as soon as you
> are done. You can run xhost without any arguments to see exactly who is
> alowed to connect to you.
Exactly :) But I am very lazy. It is very long string for me on my local
machine with only one user =)
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