Re: switch users and still use display

[Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>]

fxkl47BF@protonmail.com wrote:
> i log in to x session as user1 on host1
> from within a xterm i want to change to user2 on host1 and run x programs
> the current way i do this is ssh user2@host1
> does using ssh on the same host use encryption
> is there another way to do this
> i feel like this has been hashed over here previously
> i just can't find the answer
>

You can use:

su - user

then run your X program, provided you change:

/etc/pam.d/su-l

and add

session         optional        pam_xauth.so

Some people might say that this is insecure. I don't think it is in a
single user environment.

(I posted this before but I am not sure it got through).