On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > Or try this:
... > Works very nice over rlogin, too. It add's the users xauth entry to roots > XAuthority instead of letting root manipulate the users .XAuthority Who uses rlogin? Everybody uses ssh nowadays. ssh has X11-forwarding built-in (if it was not disabled - it is a potential security hole if you don't fully trust the remote server: the remote server has all the information in needs to open new X11 clients on your display) So you can simply use 'ssh otheruser@localhost'. if otheruser is root, then you may need to PermitRootLogin . -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]