On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:50:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > when maintaining a machine from remote I sometimes have to switch to > a non-root user (whose password I don't want to know) to try something > out. > > For that, I log into that machine by ssh -Y r...@.... > Now, how can I switch to user USER such that the X credentials > are copied.
If you use key based authentication, you can log in directly as the user without needing the password. -- Neil Bothwick Idaho - It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
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