Re: sudo and X

To: Simo Kauppi <swk@nic.fi>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: sudo and X
From: Rob Benton <rob.benton@conwaycorp.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:27:10 -0600
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Simo Kauppi wrote:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:17:20PM -0500, Michael Papazoglou wrote:

There has been some discussion about sudo and X, but I have yet to
see a solution.

The problem is, with the latest update to sudo, when I try to use sudo
to run a program that opens a window (example: sudo xterm) I get
the error:

xterm: DISPLAY is not set

According to the DSA, additional variables are only passed through when
set as env_check in /etc/sudoers, but I haven't got it working. I.e.


What is DSA?

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