[PLUG] ssh and root

Michael Montagne montagne at boora.com
Thu May 22 10:38:01 UTC 2003


>On about 22/05/03, Paul Heinlein was heard to proclaim:

> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Michael Montagne wrote:
> 
> > Not sure what has changed.  I've been successful at this many time
> > in the past.
> 
> Hmm. Everything looks OK.
> 
> >  5. Run su (the exact invocation would be helpful)
> 
> I need to know if you do "su" or "su -" when you become root.
> 
> Also, once you become root, what does 'echo $DISPLAY' return?
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
> 

I just type "su".

As root:
# echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

As me:
$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

The problem seems to be only on that remote machine.  I can ssh to
another box at home from the bad one and everything works ok.
-- 
  Michael Montagne  http://www.themontagnes.com  503.226.1575 
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