Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:26:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject: Re: should su retain ${DISPLAY}
Message-ID: <199504101826.UAA00595@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9504101728.AA24173@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 10, 95 11:28:15 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > The TERM variable designates an output device. > > The DISPLAY variable designates a resource. > ... > Becoming root in such a case results in losing access to the resource, > unless you are prepared to hack .Xauthority, etc. in the su program. I think this is a sufficient argument against it. Ok. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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