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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.
Le 22/09/2017 à 18:51, Hector Gonzalez a écrit :
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>
> On 09/22/2017 05:10 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> Le 22/09/2017 à 01:32, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
>>>> You can probably justify 'xhost +' if this is one of those
>>>> I'm-the-only-user machines. Thank Ghu, remote network access to the X
>>>> server is no longer enabled by default on Linux hosts. (The right way
>>>> to do remote X11, IMO, is via 'ssh -Yuser@???', thereby
>>>> forwarding X11 across the authenticated ssh tunnel.)
>>>>
>>>> One can argue that you should use 'ssh -Y' even locally so you get out
>>>> of the habit of using 'xhost +'. I won't argue that, but will just
>>>> put it out there.
>>> ..my prefecence was the -X option: ssh -X root@localhost
>>> until Debian killed it with some new policy.
>>
>>     AFAIR, ssh -Y is used for backward compatibility with old 
>> software (like libroot), but, normally, -X is enough.

>>
>>     I don't know how one can prevent you from running ssh -X 
>> root@localhost . Permission to do so is set/unset in 
>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config .

>>
>>     But gksu or gksudo do not require ssh at all.

>
> You can also do this, assuming your original user is "user":
> XAUTHORITY=~user/.Xauthority
> export XAUTHORITY
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> export DISPLAY
> and use x with that. You don't add permissions, and there is no need
> to use ssh to forward localhost connections. If XAUTHORITY is
> missing, you need xauth installed, but that should already be there if
> you have ssh and X anyway. root should have permission to read
> ~user/.Xauthority unless you are using a non local home directory.
>

     That's a much nicer solution than openning a window to ask the 
password. Just a question: do su and sudo transmit these environment 
variables? I bet for sudo, it is configurable.


             Didier