On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Ben Messinger wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and > > this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, > > and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. > > I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember where. > > I am also having the same trouble. I didn't see a reply to Andrew's > question, so I wanted to add that I am also interested in solving this > one. I never encountered this problem when I was using other (lesser) > distributions. Please help if you know the answer. There are some tools > like gnome-apt that I would like to use without having to end my > x-session and start a new one as root. There is more than one way to do it. The following is one possibility, and is what I use: export XAUTHORITY=/home/branden/.Xauthority I do that from the root shell. This works for root only. If you su to an unprivileged user, they ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT be able to read another user's .Xauthority file -- the permissions on it should be 600. After you do the above you can run X clients as root to your heart's content. -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | Chemistry is really physics. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | Physics is really math.
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