Gnome Warning

[John R. Ghidiu]

If all you need is to not enter a password, look into sudo. its a real
nice program that allows you to specify which users can run which
programs as root. you can allow su -c to be run as root (from your
user), and not ask for a password. I find sudo to be very helpful for a
variety of tasks...

John

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 11:39, Justin Bennett wrote:
> I am running XMMS because of the feautres, playlists, streaming media,
> and the IRman plugin. I haven't found a command based one with all the
> above. Tried doing su -c but It asks for a password which would needs
> human input. I'm trying to get it to start xmms as root at bootup
> basically. The only was I was able to do this (kinda hokey) was to
> create an expect script which ssh's to 127.0.0.1 as root and runs xmms
> and displays it on the xconsole. Told you it was hokey. But doing su -c
> I need password input which is what I'm trying to avoid.
>  
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 16:49, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> > Could you script in a command line mp3 player before the X session starts and avoid 
> > the problem altogether?  
> > Is there a compelling reason to have this machine that does not appear to be used by 
> > a human being run a GUI at all?  
> > Or am I missing something here?
> > 
> > -Greg Neumann
> > 
> > > Ok this has probably been asked and answered. Running gnome as root is
> > > there a way to remove the error message that your running as root? Other
> > > than recompilation :). I have a little laptop running as a mp3 player.
> > > For some very odd reason when autologin runs the serial port is owned as
> > > root, and my IRMAN IR reciver (for the remote) uses the serial. SO if I
> > > want to autologin so it runs XMMS at bootup, and also have access to the
> > > Serial port, I need to autologin as root, but then I get the message. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Justin
> > >   
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> > > Justin Bennett
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> Justin Bennett
> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> Clarence, NY 14031
> 716-631-0100 ext 215