Bug 159797 - Please document that sudo won't be able to start X applications in 10.1
Summary: Please document that sudo won't be able to start X applications in 10.1
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Release Notes (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 8
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: RC 1
Assignee: Karl Eichwalder
QA Contact: Andreas Jaeger
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Reported: 2006-03-21 16:26 UTC by Lenz Grimmer
Modified: 2006-03-24 15:58 UTC (History)
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Description Lenz Grimmer 2006-03-21 16:26:44 UTC 
Can you please add a note to the release notes that sudo in 10.1 has been changed to not start X applications by default anymore? Please see the discussion in BUG#159599 for details. As this is a noticable change in behaviour, it should be clearly documented. Thanks!
Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-21 19:06:32 UTC 
Agreed.
Comment 2 Karl Eichwalder 2006-03-22 08:56:42 UTC 
I'll add this section:

  <!-- bug 159599 -->
  <sect3 status="2006-03-22" id="sudo-x">
   <title>sudo without X Forwarding</title>

   <para>
For security reasons, <command>sudo</command> does no longer X forwarding.  If
you want to start an X program such as &yast; that requires
<systemitem>root</systemitem> permissions, either become
<systemitem>root</systemitem> first using <command>su</command> or call it via
<command>ssh</command> as follows:</para>
   <para>
<literal>ssh -X -l root localhost yast2</literal></para>
  </sect3>
Comment 3 Karl Eichwalder 2006-03-24 15:58:33 UTC 
-> /work
Comment 4 Karl Eichwalder 2006-03-24 15:58:49 UTC 
-> /work