Monday, June 14, 2021

SUDO + root/GUI utilities

In below example, a regular user is required to open "virt-manager" as root user but using sudo only.


bash-4.1$ ssh -X user1@server110

user1@server110's password: 

Last login: Mon Jun 14 22:27:41 2021 from xsjengvm209130.xilinx.com

[user1@server110 ~]$ 

[user1@server110 ~]$ xauth list

server110.xilinx.com/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  136e42cdc96bbb1df129bdd21aa

server110.xilinx.com/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  102f992984f06d2f91847ce5955

[user1@server110 ~]$ 

[user1@server110 ~]$ sudo xauth add server110.xilinx.com/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  136e42cdc96bbb1df129bdd21aa

[user1@server110 ~]$ sudo xauth add server110.xilinx.com/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  102f992984f06d2f91847ce5955

[user1@server110 ~]$ 

[user1@server110 ~]$ sudo virt-manager

[user1@server110 ~]$ 

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