running programs from user acctount as root (Andreas Bernauer)

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 08:37 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 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 ~]#

Ashley, whatever happened with your problem on this?  Did you get it
fixed?

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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