From: Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com>
> and to log in i do so (via likewise-open) as DOMAIN\user-name I can
> then access the machine just fine but normal user permissions any
> admin level tasks i want to do to the machine i have to get creative
> or log in as a locally managed user.
>
> interestingly enough i can drop to terminal and then su to root but if
> the application i want has any X interaction it will not work.
Execute "xhost +local:" as the user who's logged in to X. Then "sudo
bash" or whatever, "export DISPLAY=:0", and X apps as root should Just
Work.
> If i could somehow import the Users i want to give elevated access to
> the local machine i would know what i am doing from there. but the
> users that are authenticating from the domain are nowhere to be found.
ISTR something like libpam-ldap that'd allow people to authenticate
against an AD server. However, I never investigated that fully as the
auth servers were typically Linux boxes. I may have something like that
in my Usenet archives but won't be able to check that until after dinner.
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