Package: gnome-session Version: 3.24.1-2 Severity: normal [Reporting this on gnome-session, but it may belong on another component; please feel free to reassign.]
The new Wayland-based session runs Xwayland for compatibility with X applications, but does not configure any authorization that would allow running those applications as another user, such as root. No ~/.Xauthority file exists, and $XAUTHORITY is not set. As a trivial test, try running `sudo xlsclients` under a Wayland-based GNOME session. As one of many practical issues this causes, running KVM as root to allow its `-net user` mode to send raw packets makes it unable to connect to Xwayland. Please consider doing one of the following two things: - Generating an Xauthority file as part of the Wayland GNOME session, and setting $XAUTHORITY. This would allow users who can access that file (which would include root) to connect to Xwayland. - Telling Xwayland to allow connections from `si:localuser:root` by default. That seems simpler, and doesn't rely on file permissions, though it might potentially surprise people who want to run a graphical application as another non-root user. Personally, I'd suggest the second approach, but either would work. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-session depends on: ii gnome-session-bin 3.24.1-2 ii gnome-session-common 3.24.1-2 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.24.3-1 ii gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 gnome-session recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnome-session suggests: ii desktop-base 9.0.5 ii gnome-keyring 3.20.1-1 ii gnome-user-guide 3.22.0-1 -- no debconf information
