Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:17:11AM +1800, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Does this still work?
> 
> su - me
> sudo startx -- :1
> 
> 
> (I think this will give you a root X session, but I only have one user
> on this box so I'm not 100% that it still works)
> 
But doesn't that zap the current X session?

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Chris Green