Given root access on a remote machine, I'd like to be able to execute an x application on the remote machine's local desktop.
For example, if I secure shelled into a remote machine as "user" and "user" happened to be logged onto X, I'd like to be able to execute "export DISPLAY=:0" from my secure shell terminal and then be able to execute any X app and have it show up on user's desktop. X security seems to be rather complicated. Could someone point me in the direction of some relatively concise documentation? Or... Another way to do it, I suppose, would be to see who presently is running X and then do a "su $XOWNER". Given root access, subsequent commands would then work. Is there a simple way to see who owns the X process? Any other solutions to the problem would be appreciated. Thanks. --Greg
