Re: How do you use su under X?

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "GLH" == Gary L Hennigan <glhenni@cs.sandia.gov> writes:

GLH> Replace "user" above with whatever user you log on as. Of course, if
GLH> you have what is essentially a single user system

GLH> xhost + localhost

GLH> is much simpler.

*Never* do this on a system which has any kind of connection to other
computers. Including dialup connections. 

Anyone could sniff your keypresses or grab the content of your screen
or display programms on your monitor.

My suggestion is:

Install ssh (it is available from non-us.debian.org)

then ssh -l root localhost

This will take care of magic cookies, will set DISPLAY and encript the 
connection.

Ciao,
	Martin