Hi, Jesse! Unless you really want to use xauth, you may want to use slogin instead, which is more secure and will do the job.
Example: slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mycomputer# xemacs Will work just fine. Sasha. > Hi, folks > > Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described > below from TA seems to be the simplest. > > Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the > follwing lines to root's .bashrc: > > XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority > DISPLAY=:0.0 > export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY