Bug 10463 - root has access to display 0.0 even if xhost or DISPLAY not set.
Summary: root has access to display 0.0 even if xhost or DISPLAY not set.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Preston Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-03-30 23:04 UTC by mw
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-31 15:50:33 UTC
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Description mw 2000-03-30 23:04:13 UTC 
I create a new user ab, so that no local config could have effect.
I login as user ab, then, in a gnome terminal, I issue

su -
Password:
xterm&

and to my amazement, the xterm started with no errors.

I cannot decide if this is a feature or bug.

Thx

Mate

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-03-31 15:50:59 UTC 
It's a feature of pam_xauth; it passes X cookies along with
su. See 'man pam_xauth' for more details.
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