Opening GUI as another user

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Wednesday 20 September 2006 04:01, Ian Rose escreveu:
>   
> If you are running sshd on the machine you can log in using
> ssh -X localhost -l username

There is no need to insert the overhead of TCP connection AND encryption for 
localhost. As someone mentioned earlier, use 'sux'.

apt-cache show sux

Description: wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials
 Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer
 your X credentials to the target user.
 .
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/
 ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ )