From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 8:42:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7B937B408 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HFgk626933; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B7D3B76.90201@magpage.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:42:46 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010807 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display. References: <20010817083259.HICK449.fepA.post.tele.dk@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > I like to be able to open various root-windows (configuration etc.) without > having to run an entire X-session for root. > > How do I do that? > ummm, open up an xterm and su to root? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message