Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net> writes:
> > 
> > > As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its
> > > environment when starting privileged processes.  To get X working, you
> > > will want to have sudoers retain both DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > In the discussion of this sudo "bug" (upgrade), it was suggested to
> > add this line to /etc/sudoers:
> > 
> >     Defaults env_reset,env_keep+="DISPLAY HOME XAUTHORIZATION"
> 
> Other than the fact that the proper variable is XAUTHORITY rather than
> XAUTHORIZATION, this line is correct.  It is not safe to retain HOME,
> though.

Thanks. This line added to /etc/sudoers allows now me to start tkl
applications using sudo: 

   Defaults env_reset,env_keep+="DISPLAY XAUTHORITY"

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       Haines Brown
         KB1GRM
         ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482