On 25/12/13 14:08, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:29:28 +0100 >> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: >> >>> This would lead to "Error: cannot open display: :0.0". >>> Sure, $ xhost +; sudo -u [...] does the trick, >> >> No, if you do it smart way, such as (in .xsessionrc): >> >> xauth extract - $DISPLAY | sudo -u user1 -- sh -c \ >> "cat -> /home/user1/.Xauthority" >> xauth extract - $DISPLAY | sudo -u user2 -- sh -c \ >> "cat -> /home/user1/.Xauthority" >> >> And configure sudo to keep $DISPLAY. >> [...] > > I'm using "xhost" to do something similar, maybe the same thing? I > described it a couple of years ago: > > http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/08/simple-sandbox-for-firefox.html > > I'd be interested in comments. >
Why not use sux instead? from "man sux":- "sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your X credentials to the target user. Note, suxterm forces ARGS to be 'xterm', and will try to launch an xterminal window." Kind regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52be74fe.1000...@gmail.com
