Re: exporting xauth

[dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)]

"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> writes:

> After the last round of questions & posts on the topic, I've found
> that I can stably export xauthority by
> 
> xauth list $DISPLAY
> 
> and pasting from MIT on to
> 
> xauth add $DISPLAY <pastehere>
>
> is there a way to pass this information automatically?
> particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like to pass it to
> telnet when connecting to remote machines

Dunno 'bout su, but if you use ssh to connect to remote machines this
information is passed.


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