On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:19:28PM +0100, David Laban wrote: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566 provides a wrapper script > for launching schroot with X enabled. It would be good if schroot supported > this natively via a command line flag, rather than requiring the user to > google for the answer and potentially come up with an insecure solution. > > Does the approach given in the article look like the right one?
I think there's a better approach now. schroot 1.4 provides a "desktop" configuration profile specifically for running X applications. Look at /etc/schroot/desktop. Just set script-config=/etc/schroot/desktop/config (you might need to double-check the path). The only change this makes is to bind mount the directory under /var used for X socket connections. This means X applications in the chroot can then automatically use the display. You do still need to use -p so the environment is kept (which contains the X socket path), but that's all you need. Please do let me know if this isn't sufficient for your needs, and any extra details can be added to the desktop "profile". Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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