On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:40:10PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote (0.30):
Except that when you do `su -', as the OP noted, not all of your
environment settings propagate into the root shell. Instead, after you
su, do the following:
xauth merge ~user/.Xauthority
where `user' is the name of the user from which you su'd. (If, for
The reason I prefer the $XAUTHORITY method (which does work with sudo
and su, just not `su -'), is that once you've set it in your environment
settings, it Just Works (tm) with no further mucking around on the users
part.
If you use sudo a lot, you can use it to provide graphical root-type
tools to non root users (stuff like ppp controls, or print queue
kickers) somewhat safely.
M