Tag : root shell

Inheriting Xauthority

Posted March 27, 2015 by Robert Nichols & filed under CentOS Comments: 0

Tags: root shell, 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/.xauthayZmdHThat file conta..

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