Comment 155 for bug 1197395

(In reply to Mildred from comment #87)
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> I think, as many others in this thread, that the solution we came to is a
> half solution only. Not setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR at all when using 'su -l'
> breaks many things, and not just graphical applications. I'm one of those
> people that things running graphical applications using su is a bad idea.
+1

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> This is to say that the problem is not just with graphical application, but
> to anything that happens to use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. And it seems that more and
> more console applications should use this.
All graphical applications that need root access use gksu / pkexec, so this will call su (without -l option).

> Perhaps using 'su' for that is wrong and we should have another command that
> runs the exact same pam modules than login.
So do you think a wrapper für 'su' will solve most of the issues? Please don't be so naive to think more complexity will solve anything, there's already too much of it! [rant] Reducing complexity should always be a big goal. [/rant]