From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 2 10: 7:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D74B937B9C6 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 662 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2000 17:07:42 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 2 Jul 2000 17:07:42 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28420; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:07:37 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-display from laptop to desk References: From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Jason Fesler's message of "Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT)" Date: 02 Jul 2000 08:45:50 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 12 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason Fesler writes: > > If I su to root on the remote, I can no longer run anthing that needs > > X. For example: > > That's because your authentication changed. > > What we do at work i "ssh root@localhost", give the root password, > and a new set of X forwarding is created. At this point you can > now run X apps as root. Ahhh... ok so su root *before* ssh'ing that make sense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message