running programs from user acctount as root (Andreas Bernauer)

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 06:27 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote:
> thank you Andreas Bernauer for your response.
> I tried your suggestion this morning this is the result:
> [awp at localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost
> localhost being added to access control list
> [awp at localhost ~]$ su root 
> Password: 

Not sure if this fixes it, but above is your problem.  Your running just
"su" instead of "su -" (include the space then dash after the su
letters), such as below..

[mike at scrappy ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root at scrappy ~]#

Your not getting root's permissions/path when you use just su.

See if that works,

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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