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>Hi, |
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>when maintaining a machine from remote I sometimes have to switch to |
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>a non-root user (whose password I don't want to know) to try something |
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>out. |
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>For that, I log into that machine by ssh -Y root@.... |
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>Now, how can I switch to user USER such that the X credentials |
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>are copied. |
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>Unfortunately, sux (from X11-misc/sux) doesn't work in that case. |
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>I always get |
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>X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. |
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>Are there any means to achieve this? |
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Hi Helmut, |
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you need to read "man xauth" :) |
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/jdb |
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