On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:53:15 +0100, A L Meyers wrote:

> As sudo has the inconvenience of no root path, would prefer being able
> to do su - in a xterm. How can one get the X authorisation of the open
> user account when su'ing in a xterm, please?

Simplest way is to *not* use "su -" but only "su".