Re: X11 forwarding after su'ing

From: Craig M. Dupree (cdupree_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 04/30/03

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To: Ricardo Anguiano <anguiano@codesourcery.com>

    On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:15:16PM -0700, Ricardo Anguiano wrote:
    > "Hoerauf, Roy" <Roy.Hoerauf@cwusa.com> writes:
    >
    > > I am having a little problem figuring this out.
    > >
    > > I ssh to a Solaris box. X11 forwarding works, no problem here. I
    > > 'su' to a different user.
    > >
    > > What do I have to do to get X11 forwarding to work for the 'su'
    > > user. I think it is just some configuration changes, but I have not
    > > been able to figure it out.
    >
    > I don't know if solaris' su has this option, but try `su -m'. It
    > preserves the environment variables.

    sudo does this. Ie, sudo -u username -s gets you a shell as username,
    but then also leaves your environment intact.

    Craig

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