On Saturday 19 December 2020 08:34:37 am Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2020 03:32:07 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now I need some cross permissions help. > > I have added two dcop commands to my backup.sh that are: > /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface pauseBackgroundJobs > and: > /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs > > But this script run as amanada, who is part of the backup group > and this error or generated: > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > when backup.sh is launched by amanda. > > So, how do I add the backup group (or the user amanda) to the list of > users who can access dcop and send kmail a msg? Hi Gene, Thanks for posting the dcop commands, I’ve been meaning to add similar to my local nightly backup for awhile. On the permissions issue: Use sudo, basically the same as using sudo for yourusername to root, but replace root with yourusername and yourusername with amanada. And then get sudo to run without password. - https://www.golinuxhub.com/2013/12/how-to-give-permission-to-user-to-run/ - https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/ Straight su option? (I think this always wants password though): - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/372850/how-to-run-command-as-different-user HTH, Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
