sudo preserving X

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks. I think the best option for us here is to set up a script.

On 12/16/2010 03:42 PM, Dan Kressin wrote:
> This works for me:
>
> ssh as myself
> sudo -H -s -u root
> xauth merge /home/kressin/.Xauthority
>
> You might have to play with permissions on the user's .Xauthority file =
/ homedir.
>
> -Dan
>
> --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Currently, if I want to change my
>> user id and run a X application,
>> things don't work with sudo.
>> Ex:
>> X connection to localhost:14.0 broken (explicit kill or
>> server shutdown).
>>
>> The way we work is that users use putty from Windows to log
>> into the
>> Linux servers. Unfortunately, we have a common user name
>> that they all
>> can use (against my better judgement). I would prefer them
>> to log in
>> under their own user names. Additionally, they can set
>> their umask to
>> 022 so that everyone in the group can work with those
>> files. This is
>> more the way things should be done in Linux.
>>
>> But, a lot of files are currently owned by this common
>> user, and as a
>> first step I wanted to disallow logins on this and use sudo
>> -u.
>>
>> It appears that sux would work, but I would prefer to keep
>> the current
>> sudoers.
>>
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