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NAME

       sux - wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials

SYNOPSIS

       sux [OPTS] [-] [username] [ARGS]]
       suxterm [OPTS] [-] [username]

DESCRIPTION

       sux  is  a  wrapper  around the standard su command which will transfer
       your X credentials to the target user.

       Note, suxterm forces ARGS to be ’xterm’, and  will  try  to  launch  an
       xterminal window.

QUICK CALLING

        ’sux  user’ and ’sux - user’ behave just like su but transfer $DISPLAY
       and the X cookies.

OPTIONS

       --untrusted
              To generate an untrusted cookie, see ’xauth’.

       --timeout <period>
              To  generate  a  temporary  cookie  for  <period>  seconds,  see
              ’xauth’.

       -m,-p --preserve-environment
              In  this  case sux will override XAUTHORITY to the so that xauth
              does not try to use the original user’s .Xauthority file  (which
              it obviously could not do anyway due to access rights).

       --no-cookies
              Just transfer DISPLAY, not the cookies. You could do this if you
              have already transfered the cookies in a previous invocation  of
              sux.

       --copy-cookies
              Copy  the  cookies  using xauth. This is the default method (and
              only method most of the time).

       --use-xauthority
              Instead  of  transferring  the  cookies,  set   the   XAUTHORITY
              environment  variable  to  access the original .Xauthority file.
              There’s a couple caveats with this method.  First,  due  to  the
              access  right  issues it’s only usable by root. But even then it
              may not work if the .Xauthority file is accessed via  NFS,  e.g.
              if  the  home  directories  are  on NFS (note that this is quite
              dangerous already since your  cookies  will  travel  unencrypted
              over  the  network).  Then,  if  root  runs  commands like xauth
              add/remove, the .Xauthority’s ownership will belong to him. This
              will  leave the original user in trouble as he will no longer be
              able to access X! So only  use  this  option  with  great  care.
              Finally,  this  method  does  not  work  if you also want to use
              ’--untrusted’ or ’--timeout’.

       --display
              specify which display to use (in case of having  more  than  one
              available).

AUTHOR

       Originally written by Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr> Manpage written
       by Millis Miller <millis@faztek.org>

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <millis@faztek.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
       NO  warranty;  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       su (1), xauth (1)