Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 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?

No - it adds another X session (on VT8 if the current session is on
VT7).  You can ctrl-alt-f# and switch between the two...

Chris