Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-20 Thread John Summerfield
Loki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: A user who can create users can do anything. Er, not true. A user who can sudo vi /etc/passwd can do anything. However, a user who can sudo /usr/local/bin/dedicated-user-creation-script ca

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-20 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > A user who can create users can do anything. Er, not true. A user who can sudo vi /etc/passwd can do anything. However, a user who can sudo /usr/local/bin/dedicated-user-creation-script cannot. > A use

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-20 Thread John Summerfield
Kent West wrote: 2) sudo commands are logged 3) sudo can be restricted to give only the appropriate privs to the user; userA can be allowed to add/delete users, but not software; userB can be allowed to add/delete software but not users; userC can be allowed to do anything root can do; userD can

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Tal Amir
if you add root to xhost, you can run anything as root using sudo, from your regular user console. == Amir Tal, Whatsup, Hebrew Linux Portal http://www.whatsup.org.il [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq : 15748705,cell : 646-296-3835. === Johan Sc

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Kent West
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: --- Johan Sch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able to use GUI applications. Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. Generally i use gksu http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/gksu So if i want

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:14, Johan Sch wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able > to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. There are s

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Alexei Chetroi said: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote: >> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0100 (IST) >> From: Ciaran Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Johan Sch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: To use GUI as root >>

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0100 (IST) > From: Ciaran Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Johan Sch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: To use GUI as root > > Johan Sch said: > > > > In

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
--- Johan Sch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to > become root and be able to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. > > Thanks > -- > Johan Sch > Registered Linux User #330034 >

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Johan Sch (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be > able to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. Install sux: apt-get install sux If you use Woody, and sux is not a

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Ciaran Johnston wrote: Johan Sch said: Hi, I am new to Debian. In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able to use GUI applications. Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. Set your display as root: export DISPLAY=:0.0 then allow localhost access to th

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Johan Sch wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able to use > GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian.

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Johan Sch said: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be > able to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. Set your display as root: export DISPLAY=:0.0 then allow localhost access to the display as