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

[Ben Kahn]

> You need to grant joe temporary access to your X server:
> 
>    xhost +local:joe at localhost
>    sudo -u joe xclock
>    xhost -local:joe at localhost

Okay....
So this solution is a tad obscure and is still different from the way
other Linux distributions work.  It's also a lot more work with a
somewhat strange syntax, and has similar (although slightly different)
security problems that my solution has.

Why is this better?

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Benjamin Kahn
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