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Bug#199063: marked as done (kdm does not set XAUTHORITY)

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Package: kdm
Version: 3.1.2-1


 Kdm does not set the environment variable XAUTHORITY
to $HOME/.Xauthority when it is not already set.
As it is done by startx and gdm I suppose it should
do it. It is a problem because if you do a su
to become root, you do not have an access to X.

I am unsing a GNU/Linux Debian unstable

Thanks,

 Geo

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  ack, this is not a bug

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:55:49PM +0100, "Olaf Märker" wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Georges Da Costa wrote:
> 
> >  Kdm does not set the environment variable XAUTHORITY
> > to $HOME/.Xauthority when it is not already set.
> > As it is done by startx and gdm I suppose it should
> > do it.
> 
> The behavior of kdm, xdm, startx is everytime the same. Usually they create
> the file $HOME/.Xauthority to grant access to X to the user and do not set
> the XAUTHORITY environment variable. Only if they cannot write to
> $HOME/.Xauthority, this file will be created elsewhere (e.g. /tmp) and
> $XAUTHORITY will be set to it.
> How gdm handle this i don't know, but xdm, startx and kdm does so (on my
> computers) and this behavior is described in the xdm man page. 
> I think, this is not a bug.
> 
> A simple work around to set the variable is to put
> if [[ -z $XAUTHORITY ]]; then export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority; fi;
> in the $HOME/.bashrc file.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Olaf Märker.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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