On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the wiki. Add the line

session optional pam_xauth.so

to /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/su-l. Then switch to your root user using 'su' or 'su -'.

How is this inconvenient? I don't get it. Your method worked and it can't be any easier. Thank you so much.

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

All the methods in the wiki are inconvenient, this one is - on the contrary - extremely convenient.

sorry! my bad, I misread as 'inconvenient' in your first post. Clearly my mistake. I have added your advice in the wiki. I hope it helps others!

On вто, 11 фев 2014 13:41:08 CET, Martti Kühne wrote:

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Damjan wrote:

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why don't you just use sudo?

$ sudo env ... DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/damjan/.Xauthority ...

those are propagated by default (I don't remember setting this up)

-- дамјан

Well... locally, at least, that's exactly why I needed that wrapper:

$ command sudo env | grep ^XAUTHORITY $ sudo env | grep ^XAUTHORITY XAUTHORITY=/home/martti/.Xauthority

you yourself are obviously relying on one of the proposed fixes, likely the one from your sudoers file.

hmm, seems not pacman -Qkk sudo sudo: 146 total files, 0 altered files /etc/sudoers is not changed, nor is /etc/pam.d/sudo - and it just includes system-auth which is not changed from the original either The only thing custom I have is /etc/sudoers.d/wheel with damjan ALL=(ALL) ALL -- damjan