Re: coupe things RedHat does well and Debian should too
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:48:10PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
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> The second feature is pam_xauth module that is used to pass xauth keys
> when duing su. Very convenient. Recall how often we get questions about X
> connection refused after su.
The way I work around this on my own workstation setups is by adding this to
root's .zshrc:
[[ "x$USER" != "xroot" ]] && [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]] && \
[[ -f ~${USER}/.Xauthority ]] && export XAUTHORITY=~${USER}/.Xauthority
It'd need to be cleaned up a bit for general use, but you get the idea.
Marc
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