Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo
Jeff Henson
jeff at jhenson.net
Mon Feb 2 16:45:36 UTC 2009
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Henson <jeff at jhenson.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
Was just able to test it and it doesn't work the way I thought.
-- Jeff
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