I have a need to export my display from a RHEL host AFTER I have sudo'd to root... (such as virt-manager console) xauth list | grep `uname -n` > /tmp/`logname`-xauth && chmod 660 /tmp/`logname`-xauth sudo su - LOGNAME=`logname` xauth add `tail -1 /tmp/${LOGNAME}-xauth` virt-manager
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.