xauth and sudo

[Chris Covington]

A user wants to sudo to a user and pick up the user's environment, but
when they try, they aren't able to use XWindows.  Is there a way
around this?


In sudo is it possible to read in a .profile, have xauth info merged
in from the old user, and then have a command executed?

For example, how would I get this (or something like it) to work:

D=$DISPLAY
XAUTHKEY="`xauth nlist $D`"
COMMAND="xlogo"

sudo -u root ". /.profile; DISPLAY=$D; echo $XAUTHKEY |\
  xauth nmerge -; $COMMAND; xauth remove $D"

Sudo seems to treat the item in quotes as one command rather than a
series of commands.

Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Covington, ccoving at uhc.com