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Re: The best recommendation for allowing "su" in X



Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> wrote:
>   What recommendation should I give to the reader for "su" in X?

> Here is the back ground.  FAQ is:

>  "I want to run X from a user account. It is a good thing. But how can
>   I get a program which requires root privilege to run from this X
>   session?"  

>  "export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority"
[...]

This probably won't work if /home is on an NFS-mount, iirc sux works
around this.
http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml
                 cu andreas


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