Sunday, October 22, 2017

sudo - how to use xauth to run graphical application via other user on linux



My regular user account is, let's say, user1. I created separate user2 for some x application that i would like to run while being logged into x as user1 but in a way that will prevent it from read/write access to user1 data. I thought that i could use xauth and sudo/su to user2 from user1 to run this application. How do i do this? I'm not sure how to configure xauth.


Answer



I found something that works great for me on KDE



kdesu -u username /path/to/program


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