[sllug-members]: Environment/Path help
Andrew GIlmore
agilmore at wirelessbeehive.com
Tue Dec 12 13:45:30 MST 2006
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:42 -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
Ahh, and Solaris 9 doesn't have a clue about it, and I'd be surprised
about Solaris 10. :)
Andrew
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