ssh -X and sudo: permission mayhem

[Dexter Filmore]

Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 08:52:46 schrieb Nils Kassube:
> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > $ ssh -X user at bob
> > then *on* bob ran
> >
> > $ sudo bash
> > # konsole
>
> Don't do that - root may steal some of the user's config files. Install
> package gksu on the remote machine and use "gksu konsole" instead of "sudo
> bash". Unfortunately you can't use the intended KDE program for your
> remote application because kdesu is broken:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208461>
>

Thanks for the info. How come this never happened when using sudo bash 
locally?



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