RE: Linux --- PATH not set

GRASS GRASS user
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I would suggest that you use "xhost + $HOSTNAME" (in bash) instead of
"xhost +". Running "xhost +" opens up your x server to the entire world...
and some people use that access to crash other people's x-servers. You
could add that "xhost + $HOSTNAME" line to your GIS.sh script or the
grass-4.2 script.

I wouldn't think that GRASS was changing the UID, but it sounds like the
program isn't running as your program (hence the access problems). Perhaps
it's spawning a sub-shell that isn't properly inheriting the your ownership.

Ben Horner-Johnson
ben@earth.nwu.edu

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Ben Horner-Johnson wrote:

Running "xhost +" opens up your x server to the entire world...
and some people use that access to crash other people's x-servers.

More than that ... they can take snapshots of your screen and capture
passwords as you type them, and you may not notice they are doing it.

X is very flexible.

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