On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:15, Jesse Keating wrote: > [jkeating@yoda jkeating]$ su - > Password: > [root@yoda root]# vmware > > And it pops right up. So, what am I doing that is different from what > you are doing? Probably different versions of pam... Seems like you have a working version of pam_xauth.so, and Russ does not. A number of people are fond of using the SSH trick to get root shells on their box, and generally it works. It's got its advantages, but its disadvantages, too. For instance, if I 'su -' to root and run an X app, (which I rarely need to, with Red Hat's consolehelper setup) the X traffic does not have to be encrypted and decrypted on the same processor, and travels over only a UNIX socket rather than a TCP socket *and* a UNIX socket. There's considerably less processing involved... -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
