On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 06:12:51PM +0200, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> 
> If you start X as root, let's say with 3 xterm windows, and then you
> change user in one xterm window ('su -l iuser'), is this xterm window
> then consinderd to belong to root or to user?
> 
> When I do this, I continue to get system messages to the xterm window
> I changed user.

You didn't _change_ user.

You created a new shell belonging to "iuser", but the terminal line (in this
case the one created by xterm) is still open by a root shell.

	-is