On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:08:48PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
> What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps
> while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried xhost
> +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick.
This is what I do, which consistently works for me. I have the
following code in /root/.bashrc:
case "`tty`" in
/dev/pts/[0-9])
if [ "X$LOGNAME" != "Xroot" ]; then
xauth -f /root/.Xauthority merge /home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority
fi
;;
esac
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