On 10/18/2016 03:11 PM, bruce wrote:
> Hi Samuel.
>
> Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root,
> and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then
> does a
> firefox -p
Make sure you do one of the following commands to do the su:
su - foo --OR--
su -l foo --OR--
su --login foo
The "-", "-l" or "--login" parameter makes su change the spawned shell
into a login shell:
o clears all the environment variables except TERM
o initializes the environment variables HOME, SHELL,
USER, LOGNAME, and PATH
o changes to the target user's home directory
o sets argv[0] of the shell to '-' in order to make the
shell a login shell
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> Test laptop. login as root, start FF from the menu no prob.
>>>
>>> Start a term as user foo. Try to start FF from the term, and get gconf
>>> errors.
>>>
>> How are you starting the terminal? It sounds like you are root, but trying
>> to run a terminal using a different user. You have to be very careful as
>> some environment variables and such get carried over and can cause issues
>> with the new user session.
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