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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING
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On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 04:35, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I dont see ssh as being a good solution in this case.  On a firewalled
> single user machine, the complexity of going through ssh (which seems to
> have a patchy history as regards security itself) seems like it might be
> more of a risk (i.e., misconfiguration, security holes etc) as well as
> the inconvenience of an unwieldy command line compared to the
> alternative - simplicity.
> 
personally i find that "su" works, (without the - switch), so sudo su 
gives me a root shell, which i can normally run X stuff from.

Cheers,
Colin Morey