[gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Michael Sullivan]

Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael
account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the
install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable
it.  How would I go about doing that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:22, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael
> account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the
> install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable
> it.  How would I go about doing that?

Use sux.

$ eix -e sux
* x11-misc/sux
     Available versions:  1.0-r2 1.0-r3
     Installed:           1.0-r3
     Homepage:            http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml
     Description:         "su" wrapper which transfers X credentials

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Teresa and Dale]

Michael Sullivan wrote:

>Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael
>account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the
>install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable
>it.  How would I go about doing that?
>
>  
>

I'm not real sure I got what you are saying but check these two things. 
You are n the wheel group and KDE doesn't like you to login as root so
it is disabled.  I think you can change it in login manager.

Hope one of those helps.

Dale
:-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Petr Uzel]

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Dne úterý 20 červen 2006 15:22 Michael Sullivan napsal(a):
> Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael
> account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the
> install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable
> it.  How would I go about doing that?

Hi,
this may help : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#suinx

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Devon Miller]

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#1
    USE=pam emerge shadow

#2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line:
    session    optional             pam_xauth.so

dcm

On 6/20/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
>
> Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael
> account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the
> install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable
> it.  How would I go about doing that?
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote:
> #1
>     USE=pam emerge shadow
> 
> #2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line:
>     session    optional             pam_xauth.so
> 
> dcm
> 

That line was already in there...

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