Thanks. I think the best option for us here is to set up a script. On 12/16/2010 03:42 PM, Dan Kressin wrote: > This works for me: > > ssh as myself > sudo -H -s -u root > xauth merge /home/kressin/.Xauthority > > You might have to play with permissions on the user's .Xauthority file / > homedir. > > -Dan > > --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: >> Currently, if I want to change my >> user id and run a X application, >> things don't work with sudo. >> Ex: >> X connection to localhost:14.0 broken (explicit kill or >> server shutdown). >> >> The way we work is that users use putty from Windows to log >> into the >> Linux servers. Unfortunately, we have a common user name >> that they all >> can use (against my better judgement). I would prefer them >> to log in >> under their own user names. Additionally, they can set >> their umask to >> 022 so that everyone in the group can work with those >> files. This is >> more the way things should be done in Linux. >> >> But, a lot of files are currently owned by this common >> user, and as a >> first step I wanted to disallow logins on this and use sudo >> -u. >> >> It appears that sux would work, but I would prefer to keep >> the current >> sudoers. >> >> -- >> Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> >> Boston Linux and Unix >> PGP key id: 537C5846 >> PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B >> 4607 4319 537C 5846 >> >> >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > >
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