Hi,
I start my su like this and it works well:
su -c "cd ; xterm -ls -T Root -n Root -fn 10x20 &"'
I ran into the problem after I started to work with SSH and X forwarding,
a combination which is also quite strict about X access rights.
Schlomo
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to run some X apps from a 'su -' shell xterm.
>
> I used to use the following trick to save myself the need of messing with
> xauth:
>
> in the root shell I set:
>
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> XAUTHORITY=/home/tzafrir/.Xauthrity
>
> (since root can read the user's home directory)
>
> However, this doesn't work anymore. Any idea if there is any way to make
> it work?
>
> If not, can anybody give me the required xauth commands? (Yes, I tried the
> man page, but I didn't fully understand it).
>
> Thanks
>
>
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