On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Ben Klein wrote: >> This is not a problem with Wine, this is OpenSUSE breaking the >> environment when sudo is called. Remember, Wine is not the only X11 >> app out there. Others will need $DISPLAY working! > This is something called security....
No, the whole point of using sudo is that it removes the necessity of anyone other than root knowing the root password. If OpenSuSE's default config requires anyone that needs elevated privileges to know the root password, it is broken. Using a properly configured sudo, the non-root users are allowed to execute a (possibly limited) number of commands with root privileges, but authenticating using their OWN password. Steve Brown [email protected]
