Re: Off-topic: Gmail Grrrr.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:29:28 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>> This would lead to "Error: cannot open display: :0.0".
>> Sure, $ xhost +; sudo -u [...] does the trick,
>
> No, if you do it smart way, such as (in .xsessionrc):
>
> xauth extract - $DISPLAY | sudo -u user1 -- sh -c \
> "cat -> /home/user1/.Xauthority"
> xauth extract - $DISPLAY | sudo -u user2 -- sh -c \
> "cat -> /home/user1/.Xauthority"
>
> And configure sudo to keep $DISPLAY.
> [...]
I'm using "xhost" to do something similar, maybe the same thing? I
described it a couple of years ago:
http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/08/simple-sandbox-for-firefox.html
I'd be interested in comments.
--
Joel Rees
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Look first in your own heart.
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