Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

[Jörg Schütter <joerg@schuetter.org>]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:36:25 +0200 (EET)
Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > It's a little simpler to do:
> > 
> > $ ssh -X root@localhost
> 
> Even easier: the following lines in the /root/.bashrc do the same trick:
> 
> if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]; then 
>     export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority
> fi
> 
This solution doesn't work with "su -"

> And then su works without any problem (and computational overhead as the
> ssh sollution).

You can decrease the "overhead" with ssh -c des -X root@localhost


Gruß
  Jörg

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