Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:24:52 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com> Cc: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-display from laptop to desk Message-ID: <200007031924.e63JOqn08344@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:13:55 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007011813061.500-100000@heaven.gigo.com>
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> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > If I su to root on the remote, I can no longer run anthing that needs > > X. For example: > > That's because your authentication changed. > > What we do at work i "ssh root@localhost", give the root password, > and a new set of X forwarding is created. At this point you can > now run X apps as root. While this works fine, it moves the IPC from the "local" connect to a "network" connect which is far less efficient. A better solution to this is to redefine the XAUTHORITY variable to point at your X login .Xauthority file. For sh and sons: XAUTHORITY=/home/jfesler/.Xauthroity export XAUTHORITY For csh and children: setenv XAUTHORITY ~jfesler/.Xauthority R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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