Su sets the environment variables (executes the .profile or .bashrc) sux does that as well as setting the DISPLAY variable so that X programs can be run. -----Original Message----- From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samjnaa@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:52 AM To: SuSE KDE List Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Latest KDE disables graphical login as root? Peter Buckenleib wrote:
Hi Mr(s) Shriramana Sharma
It's Mr. :)
login as root might be dangerous, but some tools provide graphical installers that should to be run as root.
Thanks, but I wish to make clear that I don't want to do stuff like browse the net as root. Just pop in, do stuff with YaST, pop out, and back to user account before touching the net.
To do this i enter 'sux root' in a terminal window, and then i start that tool.
Is there a difference between su and sux? Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help@suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e