From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 20:11:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B3137B409 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@shiningsilence.com) Received: from roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com (roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com [24.169.96.227]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.5/Road Runner 1.12) with SMTP id f7I3BOb16456; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Justin C Sherrill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:18:18 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010817083259.HICK449.fepA.post.tele.dk@there> In-Reply-To: <20010817083259.HICK449.fepA.post.tele.dk@there> Cc: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081723181802.00504@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Friday 17 August 2001 04:34, 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? I don't know if it's the correct way to do it, but typing "+xhost 127.0.0.1" in a terminal window, and then su'ing to root, seems to allow me to then launch X apps as root. It just worked now launching an Xterm as root, though I'm logged into XWindows as non-root. Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message