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2015 Mar 27
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Inheriting Xauthority
On some of my machines, when I run "su -" in a terminal to get a root shell, an XAUTHORITY file is automatically generated to give display access to GUI programs spawned by that shell, i.e., # set | grep XAUTH XAUTHORITY=/root/.xauthayZmdH That file contains a copy of the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE from my original X session. On other machines with the same installed OS (CentOS 6.6) that does not happen. What the heck is the difference? I have done nothing with my own xauth or xhost to permit or deny this on any of the machines. -- Bob N...