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Re: Fw: su in X



on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley (d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed it
> by making root's ~/.Xauthority file a symbolic link to "my" version
> of the same file.

Don't do that.

Instead, as root:

    $ xauth -merge ~$user/.xauthority

...for appropriate values of $user.

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