From: Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:10:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100407151001.2b111631@toxic.dbnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.b9e7479ba8747899@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
>Hi,
>
>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 root@....
>Now, how can I switch to user USER such that the X credentials
>are copied.
>Unfortunately, sux (from X11-misc/sux) doesn't work in that case.
>I always get
>X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>
>Are there any means to achieve this?
Hi Helmut,
you need to read "man xauth" :)
/jdb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-07 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 9:50 [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-06 10:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-07 13:10 ` Jonas de Buhr [this message]
2010-04-07 13:13 ` Jonas de Buhr
2010-04-07 14:12 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-07 14:42 ` Jonas de Buhr
2010-04-07 14:54 ` Jonas de Buhr
2010-04-07 16:39 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-07 17:31 ` Jonas de Buhr
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