Bug 206320 – X apps don't work after sudo

Bug 206320 - X apps don't work after sudo

Summary:	X apps don't work after sudo

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	sudo (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Blocks:	FC6Target
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Reported:	2006-09-13 13:15 EDT by Jeremy Katz
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	5.0.0
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Last Closed:	2006-09-22 09:00:46 EDT
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Description Jeremy Katz 2006-09-13 13:15:31 EDT

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 09:11:10 EDT

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 09:19:45 EDT

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 13:09:22 EDT

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 10:43:32 EDT

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

Problem solved.

Comment 5 Peter Vrabec 2006-09-21 04:52:46 EDT

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

Comment 6 Peter Vrabec 2006-09-22 09:00:46 EDT

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

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