On 1/18/07, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xauth info on both systems are the same. The output of xhost is the same.
I tried it myself and I get the exact same results. I've never seen sudo misbehave this way and I use every day (though only Solaris and FreeBSD) including for remotely displaying X apps like veritas netbackup. Normally the environment variables are not completely wiped out, but this is not the case here.
printenv HOME
/home/aharrison
printenv DISPLAY
:0.0
sudo printenv HOME
/root
sudo printenv DISPLAY
The DISPLAY variable is clearly getting flushed. The ONLY way I could get it to work on my 10.2 system was:
cat /tmp/test.sh
#!/usr/bin/sh if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] ; then export DISPLAY=":0.0" fi xcalc
sudo /tmp/test.sh
And up pops xcalc. Obviously this method would fail if you wanted to tunnel the display through ssh. Just to make sure I'm not dreaming I tried it and here it is working successfully on Solaris. > printenv PWD /tmp
printenv DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
sudo printenv PWD
/tmp
sudo printenv DISPLAY
localhost:10.0 DISPLAY is not getting squashed. -- Andy Harrison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
