>Hi, > >when maintaining a machine from remote I sometimes have to switch to >a non-root user (whose password I don't want to know) to try something >out. > >For that, I log into that machine by ssh -Y r...@.... >Now, how can I switch to user USER such that the X credentials >are copied. >Unfortunately, sux (from X11-misc/sux) doesn't work in that case. >I always get >X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > >Are there any means to achieve this?
Hi Helmut, you need to read "man xauth" :) /jdb
