[TriLUG] Multiple Evolution Users

Jeff Tickle jtickle at jtsoft.net
Thu Aug 5 11:08:41 EDT 2004


Thanks for the sudo idea... it got me heading in the right direction.  I
got it all configured, but sudo'ed apps apparently have issues
connecting to the X server.  So I did some googling on that and ended up
finding "xsu", which basically does exactly what I wanted in the first
place... you run xsu, and it'll ask for a path, a user, and a pass.  Or
you can specify any of the three at the command line.

So I have:  xsu -u user -c evolution-1.4

It's very awesome.  ;-)

-Jeff

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:59, bp wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Jeff Tickle wrote:
> 
> > The solution I've come up with is to have the one "tickle" account, and
> > then a "ron" and "jeanne" that they never have to see.  Then, when you
> > run Evolution, it would somehow su to that user, and ask for a
> > password.  Once that pasword has been entered, it remembers the password
> > for their individual emails and everyone's happy.
> > 
> > The problem I'm having is the su-ing to the other account.  I emerged
> > sux and set the evolutions to run in terminal.  This works... but I'd
> 
> Any chance of configuring sudo for nopasswd required to execute evolution 
> for each user id?  I'd try my luck with man sudo.
> 
> Just a guess.  Good luck.
-- 
Jeff Tickle

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