[vox-tech] baby steps
Alan H. Lake
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
12 Feb 2003 17:00:18 -0500
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:28, Henry House wrote:
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> A good way to run graphical programs as root (editor, cofiguration tool, etc)
> is to use 'ssh -X root@localhost' instead of 'su'. You might try creating a
> bash alias to make a shorthand for the preceding command.
Why is this better than "su -"?
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