Exporting X permissions when su'ing to another user...

[Abel Cheung]

On 12/2/05, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...or bug 20345
> >
> > http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20345
> >
> > Although sudo is the preferred method in Ubuntu for privileged users to
> > gaim root privileges, there are times when su is a better choice.  (For
> > example, when running as another user.)
>
> Whats the problem with 'sudo -i -u joe' to get a shell as user joe?
> X11 apps do work this way.

Just tried; nothing runs, at least even $DISPLAY is not set.
After setting $DISPLAY:

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root at mari:~# DISPLAY=:0 synaptic
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(synaptic:16010): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
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Regards,
Abel


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