Autostarting vncserver non-root (was RE: help)

Brendon Oliver brendono "at" softcentre.com.au
Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:29:58 +0000


"O'Connor, Rory O" wrote:
> 
> This exchange does raise this issue in my mind - can vncserver on a *n*x box
> be auto started in the system initialization scripts to run non-root, i.e.
> as ordinary user sessions?

Yes. Basically you execute:	 su -c "vncserver args" user

I wrote an init script for our RH linux box to do just this.  Let me
know if you'd like a copy - it'll give you a starting point.

Regards,

- Brendon.

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