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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. |
| Date | 2022-02-11 14:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <DPDGN-14YU-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 07:36:10AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: [...] > > So I expect that something has already done the export for me, and it > > is unnecessary. > > unicorn:~$ echo "$XAUTHORITY" > /home/greg/.Xauthority > unicorn:~$ su > Password: > root@unicorn:/home/greg# echo "$XAUTHORITY" > /home/greg/.Xauthority > root@unicorn:/home/greg# > exit > unicorn:~$ su - > Password: > root@unicorn:~# echo "$XAUTHORITY" > > root@unicorn:~# > logout > > That makes me curious about what has been done to your system, which > is clearly behaving differently from mine. "su" with no arguments > preserves the environment, but "su -" establishes a new environment > and launches a login shell. The XAUTHORITY variable should be lost, > but perhaps something in your shell profile(s) is recreating it. I'd look in the general direction of pam_env and its corresponding config file /etc/security/pam_env.conf Cheers -- t
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addendum, Re: One-user system. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-02-11 04:20 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-11 04:30 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-11 05:50 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-11 13:40 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-11 14:00 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-11 17:50 +0100
Re: addendum, Re: One-user system. Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2022-02-11 15:50 +0100
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