Re: different color for root

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Mar 05 2004, Roberto Quiroga wrote:

> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> escribió:
>
>> But using 'su -' helps being the real root-user, but emacs starts
>> non-graphical. And 'emacs -u root' does not give me root rights. Do
>> you have a third idea?

Either:

$ su -
# export XAUTHORITY=~fabian/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY=":0";

or:

ssh -X root@localhost

> cube:/home/rquiroga $ xhost + localhost 
> localhost being added to access control list

Very bad idea.  This is a security hole, especially in multi-user
environments.

Fabian, in news:de.comp.os.unix.linux.infos you will find a very good
article (in German) dealing with this.  The subject is "Alle Macht dem
User" or similar.

Bye, Reiner.
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