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--- Comment #2 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2008-11-02 
05:07:12 MDT ---
(In reply to comment #1 from roland kletzing)
> i would have recommended to use "sux" here instead, but it seems this is not
> part of opensuse anymore. appropriate feature seems to have been merged in
> "su", but i don`t find documentation how to use that and/or what option is
> needed. (man su or info coreutils does not give a hint)

su just did that correctly since sux was dropped. No config was needed (at
least not to change anything on the system manually).

> > Setting "xhost +" before using su - and it works.
> mind that this is dangerous as any user from any ip may spy on your X display
> now!

I know. I just wanted to point out that it is really an xauth issue and this is
just a virtual machine to test anyway.


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