On Thursday, February 09, 2006 @ 10:56 PM, Randall Schulz wrote:
Bryan,
On Thursday 09 February 2006 20:44, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Thursday 09 February 2006 6:07 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
I have always used plain old su instead of sux.
Su is fine for things running in a terminal. For a graphical program, if you su then try to launch an x program it will complain something about xhost access denied.
One way to get around this is the xhost + command, but some consider this unsafe because it disables access control in the X server. Instead you can use sux.
Using "xhost +local:" is fairly safe, especially for a personal computer.
Before SuSE 10 (or was it before 9.3?) you had to use sux or adjust the X server access control. Now you can just use su.
So you're saying that in SuSE 10, and maybe 9.3, you can now use su interchangeably with sux, or am I reading too much into your statement?
Bryan
Randall Schulz
Thanks, Greg Wallace