Re: Fw: su in X

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk wrote:
>On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> 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.

Coo, thank you, I've been wondering what the right way to do that was
(Dave's solution was the neatest way I knew).

>Thanks, I thought it sounded horrid.
>
>I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each time you
>su?

I guess something like:

  [ "$DISPLAY" ] && xauth -merge ~$user/.Xauthority

... in root's .bashrc would do, assuming there's only one plausible
value of $user.

Or, for hack value, 'ssh -X root@localhost' will do the job if you have
PermitRootLogin turned on. :)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]