Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

[Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>]

At 1141715589, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Jon Dowland wrote:
> >sudo no longer lets DISPLAY through without you telling
> >it to first: actually, sudo has changed from a blacklist
> >to a whitelist model for environment variables. 
> 
> good point. And that in Sarge = stable!

Yes - it was rather a drastic change to make, but it is
covered under the auspices of "security"... unfortunately,
patching all the programs that have now broken as a
consequence does not :)

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Jon Dowland
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