hey guys... Ok. logged out as user foo.. which got back to "root" did a su - foo.. which got back to the term as the "foo" user.. was then able to do "firefox" from the cmd line. which fired up firefox. O.. making a bit o' progress.. The tests ran as expected.. ... Now, here's my next issue.::: I do a ssh using keys into a remote term as user foo. What needs to be done in the ssh, or on the remote box to be able to "login/access" the remote box as the foo user in order to run firefox there? Thanks much guys.. On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
