Re: How do you use su under X?

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com> writes:
| >From: 	glhenni@cs.sandia.gov[SMTP:glhenni@cs.sandia.gov]
| >Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by
| >xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you
| >have to have that key.
| 
| That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm, just startx from the console...
| 
| Nevertheless, thanks for the explanation.

Same idea, except your cookie is created in the startx script by an
xauth command. Just take a look at the startx script, e.g.,

more `which startx`

Gary