From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 13 10:52:12 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 557D5EA6 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF6D266B for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:52:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout07 with smtp id FNs81q0021mJoLY01Ns9ll; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:52:09 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=fZwjyigF c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=19pAxiUZ1PoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=e9J7MTPGsLIA:10 a=-KagLAuFIySVe2VOtKUA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13] helo=milibyte.co.uk) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1YhbyJ-000196-L4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:52:07 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:52:07 +0100 Message-ID: <1652760.4Ji4a82evT@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE-p9; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150413025836.14a7d43c@archlinux> References: <1846362.0RNNXTKooT@curlew.lan> <20150413025836.14a7d43c@archlinux> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: Use "kdesu" in KDE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:52:12 -0000 On Monday 13 Apr 2015 02:58:36 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't want to boot FreeBSD now. Are you sure that xhost isn't needed > for kdesu on FreeBSD, if you run something as another user, excepted > root? Yes, it works fine using "/usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -u username -c xterm" where username can be any valid user, including root. Incidentally another workaround for running X applications as any other user, including root, without needing xhost or copying .Xauthority is to configure ssh to support X11 forwarding in ~/.ssh/config and run "ssh username@localhost". -- Mike Clarke