Suppose we are already root. Then, # xdg-su -c whoami Should simply print "root" without any difficulty. Instead, Command (xdg-su -c whoami) gave exit code 3, expected 0 Incorrect output written to stdout, as shown below expected stdout:root Unexpected output written to stderr, as shown below: stderr:xdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking 'whoami' as 'root' See test case xdg-su/t.su_basic_asroot
Defer till after 1.0 xdg-su will be dropped from 1.0 release
works perfectly here #./xdg-su -c whoami root can you still reproduce with a cvs snapshot ?
I can still reproduce this problem here: # DISPLAY= xdg-su -c whoami xprop: unable to open display '' ./xdg-su: 304: [: x: unexpected operator xdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking 'whoami' as 'root' xdg-su does say that it's meant 'for use inside a desktop session only'. But I still feel it would make sense to fix this (see the attached patch).
Created attachment 71041 [details] [review] Don't depend on $DISPLAY if already in the right account
This bug is still present in b110b355 (2015/11/12).
Personally I don't think it makes sense to run xdg-su outside a graphical session, if one launches a desktop file calling xdg-su then a graphical prompt needs to be shown to ask for the password. If you are running from a terminal using "su -c". There is of course the issues around wayland where I don't think xdg-su works currently.
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