Thanks, thats the hint I needed. "env_reset" was spoiling things. Enabling the exception for the wheel group fixed it safely.
BillK On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:00 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 05:07 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: > > > After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no > > longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via > > su in an xterm work fine). > > Can you check if $DISPLAY is set correctly after sudo? If not, look up > env_keep, env_reset settings in /etc/sudoers. See man sudoers for details. > > HTH... > > Dirk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
