On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Simon Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Michael Rice wrote:
> >
> >second, there is another authentication mechanism based on 'MIT magic
> >cookies' where you can see them in action if you do a 'xauth list'.
> >
> >Just do something like this before becoming the other user:
> >
> >xauth extract - `hostname`:0 | su <newuser> -c 'xauth merge -'
>
> I am also trying to get this set up. When I use the above command, su gives me
> a password prompt, then does not allow me to enter the password, reponding
> immediately with 'su: incorrect password'
ahh... the way around this is to avoid the pipe:
xauth extract /tmp/myauth `hostname`:0
su <newuser> -c 'xauth merge /tmp/myauth'
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