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Re: [SLE] Correct way to update programs?
  • From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:44:20 -0500
  • Message-id: <200602092344.20664.bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.

Bryan

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