Re: Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

From: Jeff Henson <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:45:36 -0600

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Henson <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Pierre Frenkiel
<pierre.frenkiel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:

You can 'sudo su -'

then, X11 doesn't work

You should be able to use 'su -p username'. I'm at work and can't test
it right now though.

Was just able to test it and it doesn't work the way I thought.

-- Jeff

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