On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 10:08 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I didn't set it, so it must be the SuSE default. And no, it isn't possible to run X programs as root, normally.
Yes, I seem to remember this being a problem on SuSE. On fedora PAM is used to migrate X security cookies across.
I set it to that in my login scripts for my 'bryce' user. I think this gets carried over into root's environment when 'su' happens. Hmm, I could probably work around that by using 'su -', but for you probably the more robust solution is to temporarily force the umask to exactly what you need when running.
OK, I will make a note of that.
Yeah, I looked around for it, removed everything under /dev/shm/* but it still was having trouble.
It might be somewhere in /tmp, I don't recall :/
Guess it's better to assume there's still bugs, we just haven't found 'em yet. ;-) In any case, I'd love to help make it always work a little more, so hopefully this is useful feedback even if they are strange corner cases.
Yeah, thanks for reporting back to us in such detail. It's something to chew on at any rate. I'll let you know if I have any insights.
thanks -mike