Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:46:48
Message-Id: AANLkTi=FJM2ScDzKdk4TZ=B1DNQXu8=2MozqNGpQEnTT@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root by Andrey Vul
1 On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > sudoers(5):
4 > ...
5 > ## Run X applications through sudo
6 > Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY HOME"
7 > ...
8 >
9 > sudo visudo; paste; done
10 >
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12 Except that in the heavily-commented version of the sudoers file that I
13 have, the corresponding line does not include the DISPLAY variable, and it
14 happens to work fine that way. Try just keeping HOME.
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19 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD