Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Rachel Greenham <rachel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Oakley wrote:

> I'd like to add something here:
>
> I often see people that have su'ed in a terminal type xhost + to allow root 
> to access your display (to run GUI programs). DON'T DO THAT. It allows 
> everyone to access your display, including remote machines.
>
> SuSE made a happy little script called sux that let's the user you're su'ing 
> to access the display in a secure manner. You also don't have to export 
> DISPLAY or xhost or anything. Just run your app.
>
> I now always use 'sux -' to do root stuff in X, whether I'll be running a GUI 
> app or not.


There's also X forwarding in openssh, which is especially appropriate 
when running stuff on other machines, but I don't expect there's any 
reason why you can't use it locally as well.

ie: ssh -X <user>@<host.domain>
then run your X apps.

--
Rachel