Bug 87597
| Summary: | XAUTHORITY env var not reset on 'su -' | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Karl O. Pinc <kop> |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | fweimer |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-03-29 21:34:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: