[SunHELP] GUI interface between unix servers
fabio
fabio at crearium.com
Sun Aug 28 02:39:34 CDT 2005
velociraptor wrote:
>On 8/27/05, Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us> wrote:
>
>
>>" From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>>"
>>" But if you 'su' to root on the remote host your DISPLAY variable will
>>" go bye-bye. Use 'sudo admintool' if you have sudo set up, or note
>>" your DISPLAY before su'ing to root.
>>
>>how about
>>su root "admintool -display $DISPLAY"
>>or
>>su root "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY admintool"
>>
>>
>
>I'd have to test it. I just tossed "sudo" vs "su -" out there because I
>rarely if ever use X apps this way so I had to remind myself the
>after not having done it for a while. I always remember it now, of
>course. :-)
>
>Well, plus the fact that sudo is your friend, anyways.
>
>
>
Try RBAC.
fabio.
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