At 1141715589, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > >sudo no longer lets DISPLAY through without you telling > >it to first: actually, sudo has changed from a blacklist > >to a whitelist model for environment variables. > > good point. And that in Sarge = stable!
Yes - it was rather a drastic change to make, but it is covered under the auspices of "security"... unfortunately, patching all the programs that have now broken as a consequence does not :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]