[sllug-members]: Environment/Path help

[Stuart Jansen]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:45 -0700, Andrew GIlmore wrote:
> 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. :)

Theoretically at least it's supposed to be possible to use Linux PAM
modules on Solaris. Haven't ever actually tried it myself.

But why would anyone care? Haven't you heard that BSD is dying? Solaris
is just another BSD isn't it?

(If you don't see the humor of the previous, you don't know enough about
*nix culture and history. Don't bother flaming until you've done some
research.)

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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