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Re: Xauthority question
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Xauthority question
- From: Shaul Karl <shaulka(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 03:10:28 +0200
- Cc: Linux-IL Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-reply-to: Message from Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>"of Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:23:25 +0200."<Pine.LNX.4.33_heb2.09.0102282217550.16378-100000@canada1.technion.ac.il>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33_heb2.09.0102282217550.16378-100000@canada1.technion.ac.il>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
> 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).
>
I do not know how is the following suggestion compared to what others have
said but here is one way:
bash-2.04# export XAUTHORITY=$(echo /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/*)
> Thanks
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
>
>
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