On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > > It does this automatically. > > sudo <xproggie> It does not: $ sudo xlogo Password: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
It might work if the X app can find and read the .Xauthority file as root (you've set up sudo to retain $HOME, and $HOME is local), but if root can't find .Xauthority (due to environment variable sanitization done by updated sudo) or if root can't read the .Xauthority file ($HOME over NFS), X programs fail. -- Rob
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