debian man page for sux

SUX(1)								   User Commands							    SUX(1)

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'.

       --timout <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 transfering the cookies, set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to access the original .Xauthority file.  There's a cou-
	      ple 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 (C) 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 PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       su (1), xauth (1)

sux 1.0 							     Sept 2003								    SUX(1)