On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:23:02 +0100, Martin B�hr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:10:00PM +1300, yuri wrote: > > Sometimes, when Julia is logged in as herself and I want to check my > > email, instead of logging her out, I start an xterm, type "su yuri", > > my password, then "kontact &" and it starts up my mail client as an X > > app. > > here is why this might work: > when you do su (as opposed to su -) your homedirectory will not be > changed, it will remain ~julia/
No. My current working directory will be ~julia/. My home directory will be ~yuri/. After su, if I type "cd" with no args I end up in ~yuri/. > now, your app will run under the assumption that julias home is your home. > (which is actually a correct assumption from a certain perspective ;-) > hence, your app will attempt to access julias .Xauthority file, and if > that is readable to you (which it actually should not be!) then this > will work. > > what are the permissions of julias .Xauthority? > and of her homedirectory? > (there may also be a $XAUTH... variable involved) > how does your environment differ after you do su? > (one would think that your mailclient gets confused if it has the wrong > homedir, so i am confused that this even works for you) > > alternatively maybe your version of su is actually a variant that > includes the features of sux. This is more likely. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
