Re: X11 forwarding under su through ssh

From: Kai Grossjohann (kai.grossjohann_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/15/03

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    "Brian Olmsted" <NOSPAM@rogers.com> writes:

    > but it doesn't seem to solve the problem of becoming another user from root
    > which is a bonus of su (i.e for troubleshooting something as them). In the
    > case of ssh you would need to know the users password to ssh into their id,
    > so you may as well su directly to their id from your mortal id. In this
    > case I would have to extract/merge/add/whatever the xauth cookie into their
    > profile to get it work. :-(

    I found that sudo works for becoming another user and still running X
    programs. Dunno how it does that. Hm.

    Oh! Lookee here. I said "su" (sans "-"), then entered the root
    password, then typed xterm, and lo! an xterm.

    WDYT?

    Kai

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