FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim

[RW]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:36:54 +0000
Manish Jain wrote:

> > That is correct. Like "su -m", "xhost" is to be executed from
> > the (non-root) user that controls the display. But when you're
> > using the "su -m" approach, it usually isn't even needed.  
> 
> 
> I tried this from my normal user shell (zsh)
> 
> su - -m root -c 'echo $SHELL'

- (equivalent to -l) and -m are contradictory options. Presumably the
second (-m) overrides the first.