[Fedora 23 beta] Under Wayland, apps run via su or sudo are not authorised to connect to the X11 display server

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 11:17 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm an upstream GParted developer and I recently looked at this bug
> report:
> 
> [Bug 1266771] In Wayland mode, gparted wont start from terminal ( eg
> sudo gparted /dev/sda )
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266771
> 
> I concluded that gdm (GNOME Display Manager) doesn't set-up an xauth
> token when logging the user in when they select "GNOME on Wayland"
> where
> it does when they use the "GNONE" on native X11 display server.  This
> leads to apps run via su and sudo not working because they aren't
> authorised to connect to the X11 display server.
> 
> Just wanted to draw your attention to this so you can evaluate if it
> is
> intended or a significant bug.

There's an xinit.d script to do this under X, I think:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/localuser.sh . Also 50-systemd-user.sh .
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