> > Hi, y'all, > > Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two > little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) > > A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find > them. One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at > a certain partition, allowing it to be used as a boot-floppy image.
That will be the rdev command. > The > other is the command that I use as mattyt so that, as root, I can run make > xconfig. It allows root (or any other user, I suppose) access to the > X-server, when you're not logged in to XDM as that user. I think you may have used `xhost +localhost', or, even worse, `xhost +'. Both are potential security risks. If you are root, but logged in xdm as user `myself', just type export XAUTHORITY ~myself/.Xauthority Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
