Re: X authentication and su (Re: changing framebuffer device owner during login)
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Jochen Voss wrote:
[...]
> I use a tiny script for this purpose: I just call "xgive",
> which is
>
> #! /bin/sh
> echo "export DISPLAY=\"$DISPLAY\""
> echo "echo `xauth nextract - $DISPLAY` | xauth nmerge -"
>
> It outputs something like
>
> export DISPLAY=":0.0"
> echo 0100 0007 ... | xauth nmerge -
>
> These two commands I cut and paste into another user's xterm,
> to give him access to the display.
It would be sweet to have something that does all this automatically.
'su -X - foo' for instance, kind of like 'ssh -X -l foo hostname' but
without the encryption and forwarding overhead...
--
Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
We are Pentium of Borg. You will be approximated. Division is futile.
Reply to: