Have you tried using gksudo? This e-mail transmission, including any attachments, is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this transmission in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and permanently delete this transmission, including any attachments. On Aug 9, 2011 2:12 PM, "Theodore Ruegsegger" <gruntly@gmail.com> wrote:
Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I can't set you straight, and I don't know the security implications, but this works:
ssh -X user@remote-host su-to-root -X -c <command>
You might be asked for the root password, the user password or neither, depending on your setup.
Hmm...hadn't heard of su-to-root before; thanks. Googling suggests it's a shell script, though it doesn't seem to be available on my Ubuntu karmic or the repositories. I did find something called sux which is an X-preserving wrapper around su. Alas, since I've disabled the root password, I can't use that.
I'm a little surprised sudo doesn't have a way of doing this without security risks, since the maintainers are obviously aware of the issue and there's enough information in the environment to deduce the correct .Xauthority. Perhaps in the next release.
Thanks for the reply, Ted _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug