RE: X11 forwarding after su'ing

Yes, that worked.

Thank you very much.

Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Strozyk [mailto:Philipp.Strozyk@epost.de] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 3:25 PM
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Cc: Hoerauf, Roy
Subject: Re: X11 forwarding after su'ing

Hi,

try to set the DISPLAY-environment-variable correctly, then copy the .Xauthority-file from the initial-ssh-login-home-dir to the home of the user you su'ed to.

Philipp

$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
$ /usr/openwin/bin/xclock
$ su -
Password:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000 # echo $DISPLAY

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# /usr/openwin/bin/xclock
Error: Can't open display:
# DISPLAY=localhost:10.0;export DISPLAY
# /usr/openwin/bin/xclock
Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Authentication failed at PuTTY X11 proxy Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 # ls -la .X*
.X*: No such file or directory

# cp /.Xauthority .
# DISPLAY=localhost:10.0;export DISPLAY
# /usr/openwin/bin/xclock
#

On 28 Apr 2003 at 13:28, Hoerauf, Roy wrote:

> I am having a little problem figuring this out.
Received on Tue Apr 29 14:09:47 2003