Re: X11-forwarding after su

From: Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:16:35 +0100

Helmut Jarausch schrieb:

I just want to drop root privileges and then invoke an X application.

well as root you could

cp ~/.Xauthority /home/<YourLogin>/.Xauthority.root

chown <YourLogin> .Xauthority.root

su - <YourLogin>

DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 XAUTHORITY=/home/<YourLogin>/.Xauthority.root\ xeyes

I am not sure, if this is a good idea because you make the contents of
roots .Xauthority available to <YourLogin>.

Helmut.

Wolfgang
.

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- X11-forwarding after su
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- Re: X11-forwarding after su
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