Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root > >permissions. > > As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to > your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment > variable to the location of that file). Then you can just run X programs > while inside 'su'.
This works nicely - thank you very much! > >Launching ssh-keygen resulted in creating a file for the RSA key and a > >prompt for a passphrase. The relating manpage reports a required > >passphrase of at least 512bits. > Key length isn't the same as passphrase length. The recommended > passphrase length in that manpage is at least 10-30 characters. Nevertheless I tried to use ssh on the local mashine called MINI while logged in as user "rland" and using one of the xterm's: ssh -l root MINI - the system then prompts me for the password and I keyed the root password. Reaction - "permission denied" There must be something I had missed. > >How many bits are need for one char on a Intel mashine > 8 on virtually every machine these days (anything with a C compiler has > 8-bit chars, to start with), though that isn't important to your > problem. Doesn't this rely on the OS and the processor. Would one char be coded by 8bits on the coming Intel 64bit processor and 64bit linux? Robert
