From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 23:31:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2116A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.volant.org (gate.volant.org [207.111.218.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B77343FE3 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from 64-144-229-193.client.dsl.net ([64.144.229.193] helo=[192.168.0.13]) by gate.volant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19vWbk-000HOB-00; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:40 -0700 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:39 -0700 From: Pat Lashley To: "Steven G. Kargl" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <680642704.1062829899@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <200309060613.h866DT2E062662@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <200309060613.h866DT2E062662@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:31:50 -0000 --On Friday, September 05, 2003 23:13:29 -0700 "Steven G. Kargl" wrote: > I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use > startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user > sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example, Try 'ssh -X kargl@localhost' instead of 'su kargl'. You shouldn't notice the overhead of the ssh protocol; and its a lot easier than messing around with the X11 authentication cruft. -Pat