On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 22:59, wmeler wrote:
1) I cannot seem to login as root. on my own machine The system says "Root logins are not allowed" or something close to that. This is only in the windowing system. I am using KDE 3.0 if that matters on SuSE 8.1 Pro.
I know the password is correct, because I can log in on a console terminal window as root.
Not sure, but this seems like I have some security feature on that prevents me from loggin in (in Yast2?), but I can't seem to find the feature. I never had this problem before about a month ago, and it was just an annoyance until today.
This is good security. You should not need to log into the GUI as root.
2) How do I run something (say mozilla) from a command line when I'm logged in as a regular user in the windowed environment. I don't know how to redirect the graphics to 0:0 (I think that's what I need to do).
Use "sux" instead of "su". THat will set up your X forwarding.
E.g.:
sux -
If it still complains that it does not have permission to use the X
display, give local users permission to use the X-session:
Open another terminal as normal user and type:
xhost + localhost
This should work.
For interest: To manually export the DISPLAY:
export DISPLAY=