Re: .Xauthority and kdm
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:30:12PM +0200, tim wrote:
> On Monday, 2. July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> > If you are the only user that will ever su to run an x app, you can
> > do another pretty lame trick by putting both variable assignments in
> > /root/.bash_profile. It is pretty bad actually, because when you
> > login on the console, some programs will be confused and think you're
> > in x.
>
> I had the same idee, but doubt that it would work.
Why not? You are never directly referring to any credentials, just a
file that should contain currently valid credentials. And root can read
any file, so the mode 0600 on ~tim/.Xauthority doesn't matter.
If it is always user tim, logged in on the :0 display, who su's to root,
then it should work, I figure. Although I must admit not having actually
tested it. As I said, I think it's pretty lame. Do something else.
Cheers,
Joost
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