RE: X11 forwarding after su'ing

[ On Monday, April 28, 2003 at 15:32:38 (-0500), Wilson, Richard E wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: X11 forwarding after su'ing
>
> If I enter "su - id" I lose the "DISPLAY" environment variable in Solaris.

That would tend to suggest that the security on your X11 server is next to nil.... You might want to fix that if it's accessible from any network which anyone other than yourself can access, including if there are any other users on the machine you're forwarding X11 connections from that you don't trust even more than you trust yourself. :-)

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