Running root and user vnc sessions.

"Beerse, Corné" c.beerse@torex-hiscom.nl
Thu Nov 7 09:43:00 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Scarlett [mailto:scarletb@oz.net]
> 
>       I'm currently running the 'default' vnc session as a non-root
> user.  However, I often find that I need root access in the GUI tools,
> which the non-root user doesn't have.  I'm using the
> /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file to indicate which user vncserver should
> use at vncservice startup.  I've placed root there, but each time it
> fails with an environment variable failure ($env{user}).  Anyone know
> how this can be done?

I found a discription of this vncservers file at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5499 




CBee