Bug 169187

Summary:	su - should preserve $WINDOWID
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vlado Potisk <reg.bugs>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Vlado Potisk 2005-09-24 10:44:37 UTC

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Description of problem:
Terminal emulators for X set the $WINDOWID environment variable. According to the documentation su - (or su -l or su --login) unsets all environment variables except few variables like TERM, HOME or SHELL. The WINDOWID is similar to the TERM, it is a property of the window the terminal emulator is running in and does not change when su switches to another user ID. That's why it should be added to the list of preserved variables.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.2.1-31

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start xterm, konsole or similar program
2. echo $WINDOWID
3. su - some_user_name
(you can use your own login name and password)
4. echo $WINDOWID
  

Actual Results:  before su - : WINDOWID is displayed (numeric string)
after su- : WINDOWID does not exist, nothing is displayed

Expected Results:  WINDOWID should exist also after su -

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-09-30 09:54:01 UTC

The same can be said of VNCDESKTOP, SESSION_MANAGER, GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID,
and so on and so on, but su is deliberately restrictive so as to avoid any
potential security issues.