Re: To use GUI as root

From: Alexei Chetroi (debian_at_lexa.uniflux-line.net)
Date: 08/19/04

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    Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:12:29 +0300
To: Ciaran Johnston <cj@nologic.org>

    On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
    > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0100 (IST)
    > From: Ciaran Johnston <cj@nologic.org>
    > To: Johan Sch <johansche@absamail.co.za>
    > Subject: Re: To use GUI as root
    >
    > Johan Sch said:
    > >
    > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be
    > > able to use GUI applications.
    > >
    > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian.
    >
    > Set your display as root:
    > export DISPLAY=:0.0
    >
    > then allow localhost access to the display as normal user:
    > xhost + localhost
     
      Thus allowing any user with shell on your computer connecting to your
    screen (not really a problem if you're only user in the system). If you
    are not going to use sux, instead of "xhost + localhost", better run
    "xauth list" as user which launched X session, to get list of cookies,
    than add as root "xauth add <line which matches your display>". Or set
    enviroment variable XAUTHORITY of root to user's ~/.Xauthority. See
    man xauth for more information.

      Regards, 

    --
Alexei Chetroi
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