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allowing X display from su'd environment



	Hi!

Yogesh Sharma wrote:
> > I am using woody + testing + some unstable:
> > in xterm/gnome-terminal usually I do (as normal user) xhost +

Matt Zimmerman écrivait :
> This disables access control in the X server.  This is, almost always, a
> very bad idea.

A better way to allow it (when you switch from normal to root user) :

  test@localhost:~$ su -
  root@localhost:~# xauth merge ~test/.Xauthority
  root@localhost:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0
  root@localhost:~# xterm	# or whatever Xwindow program you want to run

I can remember there was some 'su' feature doing it automagically somewhere
(with RedHat, Mandrake or another one)...

Cheers, J.C.
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