Re: xhost-command in Debian1

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: xhost-command in Debian1
Date	2021-10-23 20:40 +0200
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:44:25 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> > root@jhegaala:~#  
> 
> I think you need su --whitelist-environment=DISPLAY,XAUTHORITY -

Thank you, also to Reco.

I did:

$ alias su="su --whitelist-environment=DISPLAY,XAUTHORITY"

That works. So I will add that to my other aliases in ~/.bashrc and in
/etc/skel/.bashrc.

I tried editing /etc/security/pam_env.conf, as tomas@tuxteam.de
suggested earlier, but that caused problems.

DISPLAY		DEFAULT=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 OVERRIDE=${DISPLAY}
XAUTHORITY	DEFAULT="/home/charles/.Xauthority" OVERRIDE=${XAUTHORITY}

The DISPLAY line appears to work; that XUTHORITY line does not. It
caused /home/charles/.Xauthority to be owned by root, which in turn
caused problems when SSHing in as charles.

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Thread

Re: xhost-command in Debian11 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-10-22 16:30 +0200
  Re: xhost-command in Debian11 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-22 16:50 +0200
    Re: xhost-command in Debian1 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-10-23 20:40 +0200
      Re: xhost-command in Debian1 Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-24 08:00 +0200
        Re: xhost-command in Debian1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-24 15:20 +0200
  Re: xhost-command in Debian11 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-10-22 17:00 +0200

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