Will I have to do this every time I want to run WINE? Or will it be permanent?
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You need to use a better distro or report a bug against SuSE. The correct way for this to work is for it to be transparent and automatic like on fedora, using pam_xauth.
Alternatively use a program called "sux". Finally there's no need to run wine as root |
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I would rather avoid ssh because then there would have to be an extra process in memory using resources (even if it's a small amount). Furthermore, I have no need to log into my computer remotely so I can be more sure it's secure if sshd isn't even running. |
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The latter :)
I'm a security fanatic, call me professional paranoid ;) Cheers, Tink |
xhost is unnecessary on incorrectly set up distributions, so it's kind of a hack. But this is the problem with having so many distros ....
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oops, yes, must be tired :)
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Hi,
Trying "xhost +local:" on user shell works well when running as root in root shell after using "su". Launching X application works well. On Debian Testing, it seems that when using "su -" to have a root shell to really run as root using root's environment setup (.cshrc etc.) launching X application don't work. "xhost +local:" seems useless. Shutting down the firewall, setting DISPLAY=:0.0 in root shell, doing xhost - (from the user account) doesn't help. It seems that on RedHat it's working fine! Is there a trick to be able to run X application when doing "su -"? thanks |
Interesting - using "su -" then opening GUI programs works the same for me as using plain "su". Maybe you should submit a bug report to Debian.
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Hi,
This might is probably not a Debian bug but rather something that a root script does when invoking "su -" . |
Yeah - maybe it's changing $DISPLAY.
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