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Re: PCI compliance and shared Linux accounts

From: Greg Norris <spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:44:36 -0500
Message-ID: <d4beff360510241444n30678206r87ec7acdb780417e@mail.gmail.com>


On 10/24/05, Henry Poras <henry_at_itasoftware.com> wrote:
> Rodd,
> The problem is I would ssh -X henry and then sudu su - oracle (need to sudo
> and not su since I don't know the 'oracle' password). It's at the su when X
> is dropped.

Take a look at sux <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/>. It's a (shell script) wrapper around the su command, which preserves all the necessary X authentication info from your original session. Works like a charm! :)

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