Hey guys I'll just throw my more local (than probably necessary) .bashrc function in here...
sudo () { local env; if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]; then command sudo "XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority" "$@"; else command sudo "$@"; fi } You don't give up on X11 cookies, you don't need to touch pam and can go on hoping it works in your favor, and thridly, there's even a mention of .Xauthority in the stock sudoers file, so, you'll never find where these things are set up on a running system anyway... cheers! mar77i