PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd)

Fri Sep 5 23:25:57 PDT 2003

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine.  I use
> startx to start X11 as user kargl.  If I then su to user
> sgk, I cannot fire up X clients.  For example,

Is $XAUTHORITY still set in the subshell?
Can both users read the Xauthority file?

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