> Actually sux was discussed on this list some months ago, yuri mentioned
> it - i thought at first that it was a SuSE'ism, but on investigation
> that is not so.

SuSE's version of sux is 100% made by SuSE. I bet several people had the
same idea and all called it sux.

Some distros have the functionality of sux built into su, eg Redhat and
as Yuri says Mandrake. This is a bad idea for security as in effect this
transfers security to the target user by granting unlimited access to
the X server. I find it much better to have to explicitly request that
my X server is handed over to the new user. Compare ssh -x being
default.

Volker

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