Hi, Thanks for your advice. On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 10:57, Mail Lists wrote: - snip - > > o I'd prefer to be logged in as non-root user and su to > root (or sudo) as needed. What you mentioned is the practice I am doing daily. Login as USER and issue "su -" to carry out Administration work" Use "mc" (midnight commander) to read/edit folders and files which USER has no permission to open/read/edit. But it is not very convenient. What I need is only occasionally to browse and read those mails received and sent as USER. Therefore I start to look for a simple solution avoiding doing complicate setup/configure or installation of additional software. During testing for a solution, I found some thing interesting; KDE desktop =========== As USER, started Konsole Window # su - login as ROOT # evolution I was allowed to start Evolution, reading mail boxes as ROOT On the other way round I could not As ROOT,started Konsole Window # login USER Konsole window died I also tried following combination # login -f USER # login -pf USER # login -p USER Konsole window always died MAN login does not help much. I image that if while working as ROOT I can login as USER on Konsole window without causing the latter to die, then I can start Evolution to read mail boxes as USER from there. B.Regards Stephen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
