Bug 7031 - sux: A wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials
Summary: sux: A wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
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Reported: 2012-08-12 18:09 CEST by Anderson Carvalho
Modified: 2016-11-02 09:29 CET (History)
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Source RPM: sux-1.0.1-1mamba.src.rpm
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Description Anderson Carvalho 2012-08-12 18:09:20 CEST
Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your X credentials to the target user. Sux is released under the terms of the X11 license. http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml


Ever done a 'su -' and then tried to start emacs? If X access is based on xauth, as it is now by default on Debian, then you already know the result: it fails. Using xauth rather than xhost makes a lot of sense from a security point of vue but who wants complications?
So here comes sux. sux works pretty much like su except it also transfers $DISPLAY and your X credentials (or a restricted version thereof) to the specified user.
Download sux here http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux

or

sux: A wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials (source)
http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/distromatic.html?tag=devel&pkg=sux.source
Comment 1 Anderson Carvalho 2012-08-12 18:32:10 CEST
Suggestion of SPEC:

http://pastebin.com/PjCgeYMD
Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-12 19:32:56 CEST

Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request
Source RPM: http://www.openmamba.org/download.html?file=/pub/openmamba/devel/SRPMS.base/sux-1.0.1-1mamba.src.rpm => sux-1.0.1-1mamba.src.rpm

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 20:54:58 CEST
Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-02 09:29:01 CET
Sorry, bugs@ml and pkg-bugs@ml members, for the avalanche.

72 bugs with the "New RPM package request" component, had a severity of "normal" or more, which can lead to losing precious time when searching Bugzilla for bugs that urgently need to get fixed

Now mass-changing that to "enhancement", as it should be for package requests.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly#How_to_file_a_package_request

@ the reporter of this package request

Please check in http://madb.mageia.org/ whether this software did already get packaged, and close this bug report if it did.
Please do also close it if you find a package with the same purpose, that meets your needs.

Severity: normal => enhancement


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