Re: X authentication and su (Re: changing framebuffer device owner during login)
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:52:42AM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> It's not very useful if you don't have X. And making a package for just
> one 8KB file seems a bit over the top. Ok, with the man page that would be
> to files, and it would be a step towards the 10000 packages but still...
> So I would prefer if there was an existing package where it would fit
> nicely.
Perhaps where it would fit most nicely would be in the form of a patch to
su(1). It could still work using a pipe to xauth, so it wouldn't have to be
linked against the X libraries. You also wouldn't have to do that awful bit
with the TERM environment variable.
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- mdz
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