Running root and user vnc sessions.

[Brad Scarlett]

Excellent find!  Thanks.

b.

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of Beerse, Corni
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:39 AM
To: 'vnc-list@realvnc.com'
Subject: RE: Running root and user vnc sessions.

> -----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
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