On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:51:37PM -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> Also, I noticed that when I have a gnome terminal window open and do 'su',
> the following lines appear in /var/log/messages.
>
> Is this an unneeded artifact coming from the X window system? The fact that
> it was denied does not seem to affect the rootness of tasks after doing the
> 'su'
>
> May 6 14:37:31 hoho2 su(pam_unix)[3755]: session opened for user root by
> user1(uid=500)
> May 6 14:37:31 hoho2 kernel: audit(1083872251.894:0): avc: denied {
> add_name } for pid=3755 exe=/bin/su name=.xautholimVP
> scontext=user_u:user_r:user_su_t tcontext=root:object_r:staff_home_dir_t
> tclass=dir
This is in bugzilla. It means you can't start X applications as root
and have them use your X display seemlessly.
Tim.
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