[ale] I'd like to be able to run X programs from root

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Tue Jan 31 05:16:40 EST 2012


On 01/30/2012 10:32 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Security has changed at the PAM and selinix layers. In centos6 rot 
> can't run startx with selinux in targeted mode.
> Most config gui are run as non-root and authentication is with a popup 
> password box. So run the stuff as a normal user and wait for the prompt.
> RHEL7 will have selinux for X (partly at least).
>
Selinux is off.  It must be a PAM issue.  I'm not running a config gui 
but gvim, normally.

So  there's no way to turn it off?

Thanks,
Jim.


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