vncconnect DOES NOT ask for password!!

William Hooper whooper@freeshell.org
Tue Jun 17 21:04:00 2003


Theo Lengyel said:
[snip]
> OK ... so with `ssh' it seems OK but when used in conjunction with
> `su' there seems to be a real problem. Is there something about su
> that would cause it to bypass xauth?
>
> theo

Yes, very much so.  There is a discussion in the archives from April of
this year about it (look for "sudo with problems").  Also see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65590

The long and short of it is that sudo and su don't work correctly with
xauth out of the box.

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William Hooper