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From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject: Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display.
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:34:26 +0200
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On Friday 17 August 2001 22:13, Mike Meyer wrote:

>        The  file  from which Xlib extracts authorization data can
>        be specified with the environment variable XAUTHORITY, and
>        defaults  to  the  file .Xauthority in the home directory.
>        Xdm uses $HOME/.Xauthority and will create it or merge  in
>        authorization  records  if  it  already exists when a user
>        logs in.

Well, read it a couple of times including the xauth man page. All I got from 
this was that I needed to take something from users .Xauthority-file and 
merge it with another users (root) .Xauthority-file. Guess I haven't fully 
grasped it, because it didn't work.

It never occured to me that I just could make XAUTHORITY point at 
/home/joeuser/.Xauthority. That worked!

Now, next step is how do I do this automatically. I could put this XAUTHORITY 
into /root/.profile but that would only work for joe-user, and I'd really 
like to be able to do it for all users.

Bjarne

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