Jeff Abrahamson on Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:41:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] xauth merge 

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:37:23PM -0500, Paul said:
> > gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:41:20PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > >>Can you please give the syntax of auth merge so that I can run things sued
> > >>as another person on a remote box and have the display be mapped to where
> > >>I am sitting? Thanks.
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >XAUTH(1)                                                 XAUTH(1)
> > >
> > >
> > >NAME
> > >      xauth - X authority file utility
> > >
> > >SYNOPSIS
> > >      xauth [ -f authfile ] [ -vqib ] [ command arg ... ]
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >authfile is ${HOME}/.Xauthority.
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > Example?
> 
> steve:~$ su - root
> password:
> busybox:~# xauth merge /home/steve/.Xauthority
> busybox:~# gdmconfig

What's the advantage of this over "ssh -X root@localhost"? The
performance hit of ssh has never seemed noticeable to me. I presume
you're not going to play doom or descent as root...

-- 
 Jeff

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