Fwd: Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo
Jeff Henson
jeff at jhenson.net
Mon Feb 2 15:52:20 UTC 2009
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Pierre Frenkiel
<pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
>> You can 'sudo su -'
>
> then, X11 doesn't work
You should be able to use 'su -p username'. I'm at work and can't test
it right now though.
>
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