Bug 206320

Summary:	X apps don't work after sudo
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Component:	sudo	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Jeremy Katz 2006-09-13 17:15:31 UTC

With the changed xauth bits in FC6, trying to read ~/.Xauthority and "assuming"
that works as sudo has done in the past doesn't continue to work.

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2006-09-18 13:11:10 UTC

Does it mean that sudo su - and running X app from the shell doesn't work? This
probably never worked right.

Or that direct sudo Xapp doesn't work?

Comment 2 Karel Zak 2006-09-18 13:19:45 UTC

I think "sudo xapp" has never worked. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164671#c4

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-18 17:09:22 UTC

It worked fine in FC5 (as long as you're sudo'ing on the local machine) as the
xauth cookie was readable and things worked.  Now that we do xauth based on user
(to avoid hostname changes breaking things), it's broken

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2006-09-20 14:43:32 UTC

Default sudoers file must be modified to contain 'XAUTHORITY' in the 'Defaults
env_keep' settings.

Problem solved.

Comment 5 Peter Vrabec 2006-09-21 08:52:46 UTC

thnx. Tomas, it's fixed in sudo-1.6.8p12-9

Comment 6 Peter Vrabec 2006-09-22 13:00:46 UTC

latest-pkg  dist-fc6 sudo
sudo-1.6.8p12-9 dist-fc6 pvrabec