[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.
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Michael Montagne http://www.themontagnes.com 503.226.1575
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