On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:49:02PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:15:40 -0500 > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> Also, if I want to run as root, I want access to all the rootty system > administrator things like fdisk and fsck. Plain vanilla su leaves one > with the unprivileged user's PATH. Only since buster, and this is fixable. Just create this file with this content: unicorn:~$ cat /etc/default/su ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes > > It's worth pointing out that even on buster, "su -" does in fact clear > > the value of DISPLAY, > Also on buster: > charles@hawk:~$ su - > Password: > > Today is Setting Orange, the 73rd of The Aftermath, 3186. All Hail Discordia! > root@hawk:~# env | grep DISPLAY > DISPLAY=:0 Clearly you're doing something special in root's .profile -- at the very least, you're running that ddate command. Is it possible you're also hard-coding something like 'export DISPLAY=:0' there? > root@hawk:~# xclock & > [1] 3550 > root@hawk:~# > > (xclock ran successfully.) Is it possible you also hard-coded something like 'export XAUTHORITY=/home/charles/.Xauthority' in root's .profile?
