[sllug-members]: Environment/Path help

[Stuart Jansen]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:33 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote:
> Andrew GIlmore wrote:
> > Is there any other way outside of ssh root at host or xauth add <xauth key>
> > to get X applications working for root when you log in as yourself
> > first?
> >
> > I'm thinking of sudo up2date as one example of something that I'd like
> > to work. How about if the user isn't root, but postgres for example? I'd
> > like to do this without using sudo.
> 
> For that, I use sux.

Actually, you should be using pam_xauth. Then your users don't have to
remember to use a new command, things just "automagically" work. Red Hat
has enabled pam_xauth for a long time. SUSE used to include the sux
command (< SLES10), starting with SLES10 SUSE also enables pam_xauth by
default. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu doesn't enable pam_xauth, but
it isn't hard to do.

I'm too lazy to explain how you should do it on your distro. But here's
a clue to get you started: you'll need to edit /etc/pam.d/su. That
should be enough for Google.

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Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
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