[ale] remote X problems.

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:25:17AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> Actually, it doesn't say anything useful.  But I can share some more 
> information.  The problem is that I ssh to O as myself, and su to root.  If I 
> don't su, or if I ssh AS root, it works.  Is there a solution that doesn't 
> involve ssh-ing as root?  (I'm not very xauth familiar)

Yes.  After you su, set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to point to
the .Xauthority file in your ordinary user's directory.  E.g.:
    export XAUTHORITY=/home/david/.Xauthority

Substitute david for your username, of course.  Assuming this works, you
can add this line to your .bash_profile (or .profile, or .login,
whichever is appropriate for your shell):
    export XAUTHORITY=${HOME}/.Xauthority

Then when you su the XAUTHORITY variable will be inherited, as long as
you don't "su -".
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Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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