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

[Ben Kahn]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 19:52 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

As Abel wrote previously, this doesn't work for me.  The DISPLAY
environment variable isn't set, and when I do set it (to :0.0...  should
it be something else?) I don't have permissions.

The problem with this method, besides not appearing to work at the
moment, would be that it's different from the way other distributions
work.  That isn't a terrible thing if there is a good reason to be
different.  I'm just not sure that's true here.

A solution which DOES work at the moment is ssh -X joe at localhost, but
that looses all the local X speedups, which is a shame.
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