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Written by Steve Leonard   
Monday, 07 March 2011 15:42 
## SSH with X11 forwarding
$ ssh -X unixhost1
## Get the display
$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:11.0
## Extract the xauth entry
## NOTE: you have to leave off localhost here
$ xauth list :11
unixhost1/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  eb8d4ea8ad1f0070a8f7d2f9b3bf04f9
## sudo to required tech id
$ sudo su - sudoUser
## Merge in auth info echoed earlier
$ xauth add unixhost1/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  eb8d4ea8ad1f0070a8f7d2f9b3bf04f9
## Set display
## NOTE: without localhost this won't work
$ export DISPLAY localhost:11.0
## Run an X command
$ xterm