Inheriting Xauthority

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On some of my machines, when I run "su -" in a terminal to get a root
shell, an XAUTHORITY file is automatically generated to give display
access to GUI programs spawned by that shell, i.e.,

      # set | grep XAUTH
      XAUTHORITY=/root/.xauthayZmdH

That file contains a copy of the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE from my original
X session.

On other machines with the same installed OS (CentOS 6.6) that does
not happen.

What the heck is the difference?  I have done nothing with my own
xauth or xhost to permit or deny this on any of the machines.

--
Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
                Do NOT delete it.

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