Re: X authentication and su (Re: changing framebuffer device owner during login)

[Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:59:56PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:

||  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...

I think the Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO describes just the script you need.

Ciao.                                                           Vincent.