* Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> [03-01-04 15:31]:
I can't find a manpage entry for sux, so I can't learn more about it. But my little bit of experimentation suggests that it has very different functionality from xhost. In particular, with xhost it's possible to use sudo so that root commands can be executed without a password.
sux is su with access to X.
Now I realize that some people feel that using sudo is a terrible idea -- but if you accept its use, is there any way then to execute X commands locally that require root privilege without having to specify a password?
sudo _should_not_ allow you to operate root priv w/o password unless you have specifically altered /etc/sudoers. And if you did, you apparently do not care about security. sudo is a *good* thing when used as intended. But it does not allow access to X. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org