Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:15:23AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > David Wright wrote on 05/26/2015 05:35 PM: > > >>> If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: > >>> n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm > >> > >> I probably misunderstood you. > > > > No, but you left out the X in XAUTHORITY. > > I'm glad that one of us is awake :-) > > Doc > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR Besides being a prolific publisher/author, are you the Doc Evans of St. Michael's Hospital? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150602114121.GB31773@localhost.localdomain
Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
David Wright wrote on 05/26/2015 05:35 PM: >>> If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: >>> n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm >> >> I probably misunderstood you. > > No, but you left out the X in XAUTHORITY. I'm glad that one of us is awake :-) Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
"D. R. Evans" writes: > D. R. Evans wrote on 05/26/2015 04:52 PM: > >> >> If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: >> n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm > > I probably misunderstood you. > > Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works: > > sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm I just have my /root/.Xauthority be a symbolic link to my user ~/.Xauthority, and that seems to work without specifying XAUTHORITY. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87pp5mbsc3.fsf@elk.localnet
Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com): > D. R. Evans wrote on 05/26/2015 04:52 PM: > > > > > If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: > > n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm > > I probably misunderstood you. No, but you left out the X in XAUTHORITY. > Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works: > > sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm > > Thanks to everyone for their help. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150526233525.GA9975@alum
Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
D. R. Evans wrote on 05/26/2015 04:52 PM: > > If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that: > n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm I probably misunderstood you. Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works: sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm Thanks to everyone for their help. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
