Opening GUI as another user

[Thilo Six]

Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 19.09.2006 19:44:
> In addition to my regular user, I have created another user, "test",
> to test things. When I work as this user in Konsole, I cannot open GUI
> applications:
> dotancohen at ubuntu:~$ su - test
> Password:
> test at ubuntu:~$ kate
> kate: cannot connect to X server
> test at ubuntu:~$ gedit
> cannot open display: (null)
> Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
> test at ubuntu:~$ firefox
> 
> (firefox-bin:13339): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> test at ubuntu:~$
> 
> What can I do to have the user "test" open GUI apps from Konsole? Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://what-is-what.com
> 

as allready has been mentioned sudo is probably better but if you just
like to stuck with su use this one:

$ aptitude search sux
 p   | 1.0.1-3    | sux | wrapper around su which will transfer your X

it´s a patched su version just for the purpose you have arisen.

bye Thilo
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