On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:40:33AM +0800, Ian Pangilinan wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.46 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > Running applications that require root privileges from the menu results in > that > application running as root but instead is using the user's HOME directory. > > This only happens when sux is used as the su-like program called by > 'su-to-root > -X', others seem to be unnaffected such as gksu, kdesu, etc. > > This is an undesired behavior as far as I can tell, and could potentially > cause > severe problems for the user's profile. > > Irrespective of the desktop environment that is used, the unexpected behavior > may be triggered by forcing usage of sux when su-to-root is called: "echo > 'SU_TO_ROOT_X=sux' > /etc/su-to-rootrc"
Hello Ian, As you can see, su-to-root is a rather stupid wrapper and does not make any policy decision by itself. Whether HOME should be kept or changed is a policy decision, and the su-to-root documentation does not take side on this issue. On the other hand, I am surprised by your report, because I think su-to-root support for sux is broken in Debian. So I do not know how you can test it. I just report bug #695920 asking for clarification of sux interface. For me it fails with 'env: -c: No such file or directory' So what su-to-root script do you use ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
