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From: "Daniel Hauer" <dh@enter.net>
To: "Markus Stumpf" <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net>
Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <kaleb@ics.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: X question
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:16:15 -0500
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Hi There,
  Just to let you know, I found a simpler way to do it.... you may want to
keep it in mind for others:
Just put this in your root shell file (mine is bash)

XAUTHORITY=/(your home dir path)/.Xauthority
export XAUTHORITY

Since you recreate XAUTHORITY each time you login through xdm as a user,
when you su from an xterm, xdm reads the variable XAUTHORITY which points to
your valid one....
neat....

Regards,
Daniel Hauer.
http://www.enter.net  "The Road To The Internet Starts There!"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net>
To: Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kaleb@ics.com>; dh@enter.net <dh@enter.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: X question


>On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 08:44:26PM -0500, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>> Rather off-topic for FreeBSD-hackers---
>
>I've removed hackers from the Cc:
>
>> The way around this is:
>> [ .. ]
>> Now root will be able to run X programs in your session.
>>
>> Once you log out and log back in you'll get new credentials and you'll
>> need to repeat the above steps again.
>
>How about
>
># export XAUTHORITY=~user/.Xauthority
>
>Should do the same trick and save you from fiddling with the credentials.
>
>And as the latter user is root there should be no problem in reading
>the ~user/.Xauthority file (unless you live on a NFS partition and
>root is mapped to some unpriviledged user in /etc/exports).
>
> \Maex
>
>


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