Hi, dwitch <ydirson@altern.org> (05/05/2000): > It appears that xauth uses the HOME variable to locate .Xauthority. the man page at least says so. > This causes unwanted behaviour when doing such: > > $ xauth list :0 > $ su > # xauth add <auth cookie> > > As a workaround, using "su -" works fine. But I can't see any reason > why one would want to use $HOME for a security-related feature. “su -” indeed jumped to my mind when I read your commands… If you wish to discuss using $HOME, feel free to get in touch with upstream: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Product xorg, component app/other should be a good start. KiBi.
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