Run prog as Root and display in user GUI?

humbletech99 · 06-19-2006, 06:09 PM

I want to run a program as root and run it in my user GUI, what is the best way of doing this?

I could just link the Xauth but I'm not sure if this is the right/best way of doing this.

I want to run root-tail but the logfiles need to be read by root. Unless there is a better way of running root-tail without running it as root?

Samoth · 06-19-2006, 06:36 PM

Code:

kdesu programfoo

works if you have KDE installed.

humbletech99 · 06-19-2006, 06:48 PM

kde? no.

fluxbox.

nx5000 · 06-20-2006, 03:51 AM

You can put your user in the group adm, here my /var/log/syslog is owned by root:adm with rw for root and r for adm.
Otherwise if you want to open a root gui from a user session, just enter this

Code:

#xauth merge ~user/.Xauthority
#gui-app

or if you want, you can use sux

Code:

user@host:~$ sux gui-app

I don't know root-tail but I bet its pretty safe (tail -f log)

technopasta · 06-20-2006, 05:05 AM

you should be able to install gksu or kdesu without installing the rest of Gnome/KDE but suX sounds like what you want.

humbletech99 · 06-20-2006, 08:38 AM

thanks I'm getting suX now and will give it a try