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X11 Forwarding and su/sudo

Ever been in the situation where you log on to a server as one user having X11 enabled, but then need to sudo to another one - and voila, your X11-sesison is long gone...

Solution provided here http://brandonhutchinson.com/wiki/X11_Forwarding_and_su/sudo

I did as root

Code:

cd ~
mv .Xauthority .Xauthority_old
ln -s ~diagnostics/.Xauthorithy .Xautorithy

and it all worked fine.

This entry was posted on July 10th, 2012 at 05:44:00 am and is filed under Work/Geek. Tags: linux

1 comment

Comment from: Stian [Visitor]
StianEasier to do IMO:
$ xauth list
to find the key for your current DISPLAY, and then do the su, followed by
$ xauth add "key"
:)
24/08/12 @ 04:04

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