In message <20040312050652.GO1005 at patrick.wattle.id.au> on Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:06:52PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > sudo handles X authentication??? $XAUTHORITY gets set to your existing cookie file. I'd never noticed that before, although I've always taken it for granted. Thanks to Craig for making that realisation 'click' in my head.