Slow "su - user" under X11 (pam, xauth)

[Rafał Cygnarowski]

Dnia niedziela 22 luty 2009, Radoslaw Zielinski napisał:
> The problem: "su - user" under X is slow.
>
>
> The background: I've added an user, now I'm trying to "sudo su - ..." to
> it.  I'm doing this from an X session, so pam has decided to use
> pam_xauth.so:
>
>   $ sudo grep xauth /etc/pam.d/su
>   session   optional  pam_xauth.so
>
> pam_xauth calls xauth (as the destination user):
>
>   /usr/bin/xauth -f /home/users/radek/.Xauthority nlist :0.0

My workaround for this is following script for su -l (I call it sul):

#!/bin/sh

XAUTHORITY=/home/users/$1/.Xauthority su -l $1

Regards,
-- 
Rafał Cygnarowski
rafilists [at] gmail [dot] com

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