[Novalug] X clients while sudo'ing?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I'm not an expert on sudo, but if you can use su, you could try 
something like:

	su -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY xclient args"

I dunno, perhaps the same thing works with sudo, possibly running 
something like

	sudo sh -c "same quoted string as above"

Also look to see which of your environment variables are passed.

JIM

Mark Smith wrote:
> if i sudo to another user and then try to run an X client, it fails
> with:
> 
> 	No protocol specified
> 	xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> i'm thinking i can avoid this with some smart usage of xauth, but
> it's not obvious to me what that smart usage should be.  anyone
> have a quick answer for me?
> 
> 
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