Re: can't run editor when su... why?

[Alexander Kushnirenko <kushnir@pccmu1.fnal.gov>]

Hi, Jesse!

Unless you really want to use xauth, you may want to use slogin instead, which 
is more secure and will do the job.

Example:

slogin root@mycomputer
mycomputer# xemacs

Will work just fine.
Sasha.
> Hi, folks
> 
> 	Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described
> below from TA seems to be the simplest.
> 
> 	Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the
> follwing lines to root's .bashrc:
> 
> XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY