1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
20:31
On Monday 01 March 2004 3:11 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
No, 'xhost x' is *very* insecure. The command to use is 'sux'.
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. 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? Paul Abrahams