From 4042f1622a4f3a26270894dfcb0da7ff4f6d3745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tslil Clingman <tslil.clingman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:45:21 +0200
Subject: Tings

---
 runas | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 runas

(limited to 'runas')

diff --git a/runas b/runas
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f9b11f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runas
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+# Simple script to run graphical programme as a separate user
+
+# The user is expected to have a script $1 which does, roughly:
+# cd /home/USERNAME
+# cp /tmp/.Xauthority .
+# shred -v /tmp/.Xauthority
+# DISPLAY=:0 some/graphical/programme
+
+cp .Xauthority /tmp
+chmod 606 /tmp/.Xauthority
+
+su -l $1 -c /home/$1/$1
+
+rm /tmp/.Xauthority
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