Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:06:03 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? Message-ID: <20030907010603.GB96960@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <200309061511.h86FBLep065335@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030906120317.GA78469@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200309061511.h86FBLep065335@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:11:21AM -0700 I heard the voice of Steven G. Kargl, and lo! it spake thus: > > Thanks for the hint. I took the rather draconian action of > deleting user sgk's .Xauthority file. Then I used xauth to > merge in user kargl's entire .Xauthority. This appears to > work only if I use "su -l sgk". I guess I'm inheriting > something in the environment that X doesn't lik when I > use "su sgk". FWIW, I just plain 'su' to root (toor, rather, but that's not relevant) and use a one-off script to merge keys for running X apps: root% cat /root/xauthset #!/bin/sh xauth -f /home/fullermd/.Xauthority extract - $DISPLAY | xauth merge - Never had any problems out of it. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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