FC4 "sudo su -" breaks root's access to X server

[John Summerfied]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 23:15 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've noticed that with FC4 if I use "sudo su -" to get a root shell
>>and try to open an X application (like a GUI text editor, for
>>instance) I get the error:
>>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>>Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> 
> I saw this mentioned elsewhere in context of pam_console and it seems to
> be a bug - but really, it is a BAD idea to allow sudo to do anything
> that can result in a root shell. Really bad idea. I know that is the
> default on OS X - but OS X has a lot of bad defaults (which why everyone
> except me has to fix permissions so often - I never log into OS X as an
> admin and thus permissions never get screwed up)

This is why, of course, Red Hat doesn't allow root to log in anywhere:-)


If you want a root shell (and there are good reasons to have one),
sudo -s
does it. No need for su.

cd /var/log/squid
bash: cd: /var/log/squid: Permission denied


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John

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