On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, phil wrote:
i noticed that when trying to run programs under other names that unless i run xhost + i can't get the program to run.
Yes, that is a feature to protect other users from accessing your desktop.
anyone know what group xhost is? who owns it? How i can get control of it.
xhost is a program, not a group. Try "man xhost" for more info about it. Please note, that "xhost +" basically opens your desktop to _everybody_, both local and remote. If you need to run an application under a different user ID, you should use "sux", a shell script for exactly this purpose. Its syntax is similar to "su": sux [-c command] [-s shell] [-|-l] [[user] args]
also want to get a non-root ownership of the ide drives, ability to access every drive and partition except the linux swap. i want to run vmware from some other account than root
Add yourself to the "disk" group and you should be set. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany This is a chain tagline. I have now been stolen 8 times.