Bug 87597 - XAUTHORITY env var not reset on 'su -'
Summary: XAUTHORITY env var not reset on 'su -'
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-29 21:30 UTC by Karl O. Pinc
Modified: 2016-11-24 14:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-29 21:34:27 UTC
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Description Karl O. Pinc 2003-03-29 21:30:35 UTC
Description of problem:

Just upgraded my system with the latest updates and found
that 'su - joeuser' from root leaves the XAUTHORITY variable
set to /root/.Xauthority.

So commands like:

xauth extract - $DISPLAY | su -l --command="unset XAUTHORITY ; xauth merge -"
joeuser

need to explicitly unset XAUTHORITY

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