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

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 26 May 2015 22:47:22 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote on 05/26/2015 03:06 PM:
> > When you installed, did you install with root?
>
> I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.
>
> But:
>
> n7dr@shack:~$ pwd
> /home/n7dr
> n7dr@shack:~$ su
> Password:
> root@shack:/home/n7dr# pwd
> /home/n7dr
> root@shack:/home/n7dr# cd
> root@shack:~# pwd
> /root
> root@shack:~#
>
> So root is there and works as expected.
>
>   Doc

So the answer to my question is that you installed with root, so a root GUI 
will be disabled by default.  You will have to enable it.  It is now, I 
believe, possible to install without root, when sudo will behave however sudo 
behaves, presumably including a root GUI.

Presumably a GUI specifically for sudo counts as a root GUI?  I don't quite 
see how a sudo GUI session works, but then I rarely use sudo, and when I do I 
use it at the CLI.

I repeat myself:
in Debian a root GUI is disabled by default.

Lisi