On 09-Apr-99 Branden Robinson wrote: > The following is one possibility, and is what I use: > > export XAUTHORITY=/home/branden/.Xauthority
This is what I have done after someone suggested it to me. I first su'd to root in an xterm after starting KDE as "pollywog" Then I entered export XAUTHORITY=/home/pollywog/.Xauthority I also placed this export command in /root/.bashrc > > I do that from the root shell. This works for root only. If you su to an > unprivileged user, they ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT be able to read another > user's .Xauthority file -- the permissions on it should be 600. Good thing you reminded me of that, so I can check it. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]