Pat Lashley wrote: > --On Saturday, September 06, 2003 00:31:17 -0700 "Steven G. Kargl" > <kargl_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > I don't quite understand your suggestion. > > > > I login as user kargl. I fire up X11 > > as user kargl with startx. I use su in a > > xterm to connect to my alter ego (su sgk). > > Now, as user sgk I want to use a X11 client > > such as nedit. AFAICT, it can't be done. > > > > If as user kargl, I do "ssh -X sgk_at_troutmask" > > to login into the sgk account, I still can > > not use a X11 client. > > Hmm. That should work fine. I do it all the time. Check the > log messages to see if the SSH daemon had any non-fatal complaints. > This appears to work now, but I had to delete sgk/.Xauthority and then merge user kargl/.Xauthority into sgk/.Xauthority. Perhaps, the old sgk/.Xauthority was somehow corrupt although xauth appeared to have no problems with it. -- Steve http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 06:41:07 UTC
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