[Techtalk] ssh, sudo su, and X forwarding

Riccarda Cassini riccarda.cassini at gmx.de
Fri Jul 30 20:54:31 EST 2004


Almut Behrens wrote:
> sure she's available :)
> (it's just that the batteries of my phone are completely worn out...)

ciao bella :-)

thanks a lot for the immediate response!!  Hey, thought you were
*working* - not reading mails...(!)  ;-)

> 
> Then, after having done su, tell the new user what the cookie is:
> 
> $ xauth add somehost.somedomain.de:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 4d22408a71a55b41ccd1657d377923ae
> 
> (just cut'n-paste the output of the above 'xauth list' onto 'xauth add')
> That's it. Now, you _should_ be able to start any X application. Report
> back, if not...

Worked beautifully.
Now, I can get on with the real problem - I already was a little
worried I might not know how to spend the evening...

Riccarda



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