[sudo-users] sudo, xauth and the manual

[Todd C. Miller]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0409241859450.26253-100000 at voronkov.cs.man.ac.uk>
	so spake Dmitri Chubarov (dchubarov):

> I see, sudo would have to wait for the child process to complete 
> to close down the session. 
> 
> Something over the lines of 
> 
>     pam_open_session()
>     pid = fork();
>     if (pid) wait();
>     else execlp();
>     pam_close_session();

Basically, yes.

> This can be made a separate program called, say,
> sudo_xsession so that one could write
> 
>      sudo [options] sudo_xsession command

True, but wouldn't it be more useful as something done automatically?

 - todd