Hello Mart,
Thanks for your advice. I had to modify your suggested sudoers entry (just as well - it forced me to read the sudoers manpage!) so now I have this in sudoers:
%realplay ALL = (realplay) NOPASSWD: /home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay
which allows anyone in the realplay group to use sudo to execute realplay as user realplay.
However, RealPlayer doesn't like being run by sudo. If I enter in a terminal:
sudo -u realplay /home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay
I get:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
** ERROR **: Unable to open display
aborting...
/home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay: line 75: 2185 Aborted $REALPLAYBIN "$@"
This is much the same result that I get if I try to use su to run realplay - and the problem is fixed by using gksu instead. So, I looked for and found a gksudo command. It appears to be recently changed, so I apt-get upgrade'd my Sarge system to the latest versions, and tried using it. Now if I enter in a terminal:
gksudo -u realplay /home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay
I get:
Xlib: connection
** ERROR **: Unable to open display
aborting...
/home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay: line 75: 2226 Aborted $REALPLAYBIN "$@"
There are some complications here: realplay is a script that runs realplay.bin, the actual program. To check if this (or some other peculiarity of RealPlayer) is the problem, I added a line for /usr/bin/gedit to my sudoers file. Then I tried:
gksudo -u realplay /usr/bin/gedit
I get a result much like that with realplay:
Xlib: connection (gedit:2770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
SUMMARY:
My system is Debian Sarge, up-to-date as of two or three days ago.
If (as user jack) I enter in gnome-terminal the command:
gksu -u realplay /home/realplay/RealPlayer/realplay
I can run RealPlayer, complete with its graphical control on jack's desktop, as another user (realplay), and it works fine, BUT I have to enter realplay's password, which I do not want to have to do.
With appropriate entries in /etc/sudoers, I can use gksudo in gnome-terminal to run realplay OR gedit as realplay, but in both cases I get errors like:
Xlib: connection (gedit:2770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
So - Am I doing something stupid, or is there a bug in gksudo?
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this!
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