Andrew White on Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:27:26 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] permissions, etc.



If you are running sshd on the local machine (which you should be!), then
you can run:

ssh localhost -l otherusername xemacs

ssh will take care of the xauth exchange for you as well as pass along
your $DISPLAY setting.

-Andrew



On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Hugh Brock wrote:

> I have a permission question.
> 
> I normally log into X as a regular user. Once in a while I need to start
> a program -- xemacs, for example -- as a different user (not root). Is
> there an easy way to do this with KDE? Obviously I could log off X and
> log on again, but that seems like a nuisance...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> --Hugh
> 
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