X11forwarding in ssh

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:34, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 1. Is the file /home/user/.Xauthority created by sshd whenever I login?
> 
> 2. X11forwarding works automatically after logging in via ssh, but after
> I ran su, it would fail.  I had to manually set the environment variable
> to /home/login-user/.Xauthority to get it working. Is there an automatic
> way to do it?

Run 'su -m', perhaps?

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