Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:22:27AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
> >> You can 'sudo su -'
> > 
> >    then, X11 doesn't work
> 
> Can you be more specific? You should be able to launch graphical 
> applications...what's the error?
> 
I went through this a while ago, it's a right royal pain getting an X
application for another user running on your desktop.  Doing a sudo to
run synaptic as a 'foreign' user is much harder work than just logging
out and logging in as the sudo privileged user.

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Chris Green