[Sussex] Newcomer

[Stephen Williams]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:54 +0100, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Dave
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:39:02AM +0100, Dave Chapman wrote:
> > Login as martin then in the xterm type 
> > su
> 
> When `su'ing to root one should always use "su -".  The flag causes the
> su(1) command to throw away the current users profile and replace it
> with the new users (the default being root).  Of course to be really
> safe you should use "/bin/su -" to make sure your not using a user
> hacked version of su(1).
> 
> This is a good security step.  An environment can over anything on a 
> *nix system, and the users could have trogan horse libraries that 
> capture passwords and the like.
> 
> > 	then the root password that you should have setup during install
> > Then type 
> > yast2
> > 	If that does not work  
> > yast
> > 
> > yast2 is the nicer graphical version of yast
> 
> If you're going to be using a graphical program then before using "su -"
> one needs to first run the command "xhost +".  This allows any user to
> put a graphical window upon the user's display.  If you don't use "su -"
> but just "su" then the user's environment is still in place and his
> graphic authority is being used.
> 
> Once you have "su -"ed then you also need to issue the command:
>    export DISPLAY=:0.0
> in order for the graphics programs to know where to put their displays.


Martin,
Get the feeling you've just been "Tango'd"?


> 
> 
> Steve
> 
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