On Fre, 31 Aug 2001, Franz Zimmermann wrote:

Also X-Sitzung beenden und als User root wieder anmelden. Dann gehts.

Lieber nicht! Lieber in einem Terminalfenster unter X mittels 'su -' zu root werden, ein 'export DISPLAY=:0' und dann 'make -C /usr/src/linux xconfig' aufrufen. -dnh -- HTML's a cheap whore. Treating her with respect is possible, and even pref- erable, because once upon a time she was a beautiful and virginal format, but you shouldn't expect too much of her at this point. (Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes)

Hi, On Samstag, September 01, 2001 at 10:35:08, Juergen Schwarting wrote:

* Am 01.09.2001 um 03:58 Uhr schrieb David Haller:

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On Fre, 31 Aug 2001, Franz Zimmermann wrote:

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Also X-Sitzung beenden und als User root wieder anmelden. Dann gehts.

Lieber nicht!

Lieber in einem Terminalfenster unter X mittels 'su -' zu root werden, ein 'export DISPLAY=:0' und dann 'make -C /usr/src/linux xconfig' aufrufen.

zuvor kann aber ein 'xhost localhost' nicht schaden ;-)

js@sam:~ > xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list js@sam:~ > su - Password: sam:~ # export DISPLAY=:0 [1] sam:~ # make -C /usr/src/linux xconfig

[1] Defaultmäßig ist bei mir (SuSE 7.2) DISPLAY auf 0:0 gesetzt. Ein explizites setzten ist also nicht nötig.

Oder man spart sich gleich alles und benutzt sux [1] anstatt su. Henne [1] less `type -p sux` #!/bin/bash # # /usr/X11R6/bin/sux A shell script to forward X authentication # and run `su - root [options]' # # Usage: sux [-c command] [-s shell] [-|-l] [[user] args] # # Copyright 2000 SuSE GmbH # Author: Werner Fink # # 2000/09/13: Avoid su staying around with magic cookie # in process table due PAM. export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin/X11:$PATH if test "+$(id -u)" = "$1" ; then # # Passsive part # unset XAUTHORITY || true if test $# -lt 4 -o ! -e /proc/$$/fd/4 ; then echo "${0##*/}: Missing id or cookie or DISPLAY" 1>&2 exit 1 fi arg0=$2${SHELL##*/} export SHELL="$3" if test "$(hostname -f)" = "${4%:*}" ; then export DISPLAY=":${4#*:}" host="${4%:*}" unixs="${host%%.*}/unix:${DISPLAY#*:}" unixf="${host}/unix:${DISPLAY#*:}" tcpip="${host}:${DISPLAY#*:}" else export DISPLAY="$4" host="" unixs="" unixf="" tcpip="${DISPLAY}" fi shift 4 xauth -qif <(exec cat 0<&4) extract >(exec xauth -q merge -) \ ${unixs:+"$unixs"} \ ${unixf:+"$unixf"} \ ${tcpip:+"$tcpip"} exec 4<&- unset unixs unixf tcpip host || true exec -a $arg0 $SHELL ${1+"$@"} exit 1 fi # # Active part # if test -z "$DISPLAY" ; then echo "${0##*/}: Missing DISPLAY variable" 1>&2 exit 1 fi user=root login= command= while test -z "${1%%-*}" -a -n "$1" ; do if test ${#1} -eq 2 -a -n "${2%%-*}" -a "$1" != "-l" ; then y="${1#-}${2}"; shift 2 else y="${1#-}" ; shift 1 fi case "$y" in c*) command="${y#?}" ;; s*) shell="${y#?}" ;; l|"") login=- ;; *) echo "Usage: sux [-c command] [-s shell] [-|-l] [[user] args]" 1>&2 exit 1 esac done if test -n "$1" ; then user=$1 shift fi id=$(id -u $user) OIFS="$IFS"; IFS=":" if type -p ypwhich &> /dev/null && test -n "$(ypwhich 2>/dev/null)" ; then pwline=($((cat /etc/passwd; ypcat passwd)| grep "^${user}:" | head -1)) else pwline=($(cat /etc/passwd | grep "^${user}:")) fi IFS="$OIFS" if test -n "$shell" && grep -q $shell /etc/shells &> /dev/null ; then shell=$shell else shell="${pwline[6]}" fi if test -n "${DISPLAY%:*}" ; then host="${DISPLAY%:*}" else host="$(hostname -f)" fi tcpip="${host}:${DISPLAY#*:}" unset host exec 4< ${XAUTHORITY:-$HOME/.Xauthority} # Get rid of NFS ;^) cat ${XAUTHORITY:-$HOME/.Xauthority} > /dev/null exec -a su /bin/su -s /bin/bash $login -- $user \ $0 +$id "$login" "$shell" "$tcpip" ${command:+-c "$command"} exit 1 # # /usr/X11R6/bin/sux ends here # -- Hendrik Vogelsang aka Henne mailto: mickey@naturalbornkiller.de Recycling and speed limits are bullshit, they're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. # figth club sigs made with fortune