On 11/11/2007 10:41 AM, Bryen wrote: > I'm experimenting a little bit with sudo functionality and came across > this interesting quirk. > > If I set up a user who is allowed to launch yast2 and then I run the > sudo command, yast2 always reverts to yast (ncurses) instead of the GUI > in GNOME. > > if I su into root and run 'yast2', yast2 always comes up in GNOME as the > GUI. > > Why can't I SUDO a user to get yast2 gui? I just tested this on my SLES > server and found the effect was the same as here on my 10.3 box. > Intentional quirk or an oversight no one noticed before? > > It is probably an environment difference (probably Display) If you try launching yast2 from a console, not from within X, what do you get? I just tried it from Console 2, and that is correct. No DISPLAY environment variable set, not GUI Yast.
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