on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root > > >permissions. > > > > As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to > > your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment > > variable to the location of that file). Then you can just run X programs > > while inside 'su'. > > This works nicely - thank you very much!
*Don't* do this.
Linking files under /root to normal user files is, in general, a Bad
Thing[tm].
Instead, do this the right way, running as root:
xauth -merge ~/<my user id>/.Xauthority
You'll have to re-run this when updating your user xauth key, but this
generally happens rarely.
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