running programs from user acctount as root

Ashley Pritchard linuxpen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 13:50:56 UTC 2007


thank you Mike Chambers for the suggestion.
Since when did the su command change it has always been su root & have never
seen any documentation says su - root. Any how just to try it here is the
result:
[awp at localhost ~]$ su - root
Password:
[root at localhost ~]# pup
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76,
in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64,
in _init
    _gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display

[root at localhost ~]# kdesu pup
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0

[awp at localhost root]$ su root
Password:
[root at localhost ~]# pup
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76,
in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64,
in _init
    _gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display

the result is the same. you do not have to enter su - root to login as root,
just su root is good enough.

-- 
Diolch yn fawr, Ashley
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