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Re: Bug#69090: strange su / which / apt behaviour



On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:47:29AM -0400, David Grill Watson wrote:
> I've noticed that some time recently (not sure when) when I su to root while 
> I'm in X, I no longer have access to the X session - I have to do an xhost 
> +localhost as the current user.
> 
> It wasn't like that before - and should something be done about that? It 
> seems pretty broken to me.
> 

If you could get access before without xhost (or better xauth), then it
was broken before.  The way you describe it working now is the way it
is *supposed* to work.

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