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Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo



Reco wrote on 05/26/2015 01:53 PM:

> 
> Yet there's a way to solve your problem - get a habit of running
> X clients like this:
> 
> HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
> 
> Re-defining $HOME is crucial as otherwise you risk users' rewriting
> configuration files by root.

Are you saying that if I type:
  HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
xterm should run?

What actually happens is that I still get the same error:

n7dr@shack:~$ HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
etc.

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