RE: Help on setting up SSH for user root

Rick,

If your X11 DISPLAY environment variable is set up when you log on as a regular user, then an "su" rather than an "su -" should keep that environment variable and permit it to be used. Of course, then you have the user's environment rather than root's with your root session, but that can be overridden by running the appropriate profile script for root.

This has worked well for me in a mixed LINUX and Sun environment.

RW

-----Original Message-----
From: Parsons, Rick [mailto:rick.parsons@eds.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:51 AM To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Help on setting up SSH for user root

Salty said...

first off DONT LOG IN VIA SSH AS ROOT OR configure they sshd to allow it, just simply use a user account to log in and then su cmd into root. by doing this you greatly decrease the vulnerablity of your machine.

• Has anyone solved the problem of how to slogin as a user, su to root and still allow an X tunnel to work? I mean a method that Joe Application Support can understand and use easily.

Rick Parsons

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Bristol, England Received on Mon Nov 11 17:54:38 2002