From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 12 19:35:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02797 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:35:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02731 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id EAA22496 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 04:34:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id E91D01509; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:24:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:24:49 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X question Message-ID: <19990113002449.A94530@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Daniel Hauer on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 03:09:28PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#4931 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Daniel Hauer: > root in it to run an app as root, (cvsup for example) I get an "unable to > open display localhost:0" error message. What have I missed? I haven't tried sudo recently to say but my own equivalent, named Calife[1], doesn't have this problem. It will ask you for your password then fork a shell with the new uid (generally root). ----- [1] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #67: Tue Dec 29 20:24:02 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message