# Defaults specification
Defaults        env_reset
Defaults        env_keep += "BLOCKSIZE"
Defaults        env_keep += "COLORFGBG COLORTERM"
Defaults        env_keep += "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"
Defaults        env_keep += "CHARSET LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE"
Defaults        env_keep += "LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME"
Defaults        env_keep += "LINES COLUMNS"
Defaults        env_keep += "LSCOLORS"
Defaults        env_keep += "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
Defaults        env_keep += "TZ"
Defaults        env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
Defaults        env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL"

At work I am behind a proxy, commands run as root from the terimnal are not inheriting my terminals proxy settings. MacPorts was failing.

There are 2 solutions.

Explicitly state the environment variable in the command line:

$ sudo env http_proxy=http://proxy.url:port/ command

or, add the environmant variable "http_proxy" to the list in /etc/sudoers.

But if you try and connect to an up to date Xvnc server it will probably fail, you need to specify that your VNC server uses the VNC protocol 3.3 for backwards compatibility, the command option is simply “-Protocol3.3″ you will now be able to connect to your Xvnc server from Leopard using the built in viewer.

If you were to follow my earlier instruction for a GDM VNC Server then simply add this option to: /etc/xinetd.d/vnc

UPDATE #1

You will notice that the connecting to server box doesn’t go away, this is because Apple does not like the option: -securitytypes=none

Setup a password file using vncpasswd and remove the above option and add the option:

-rfbauth=/path/to/vncpasswd_file