On Saturday 19 December 2020 19:15:47 Michael via tde-users wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2020 11:15:43 am Michael via tde-users wrote: > > 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: > > > > 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/ This second URL showed me how to edit the sudoers file and add this: amanda ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/opt/trinity/bin/dcop But it still fails: root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "/opt/trinity/bin/dcop --user gene --all-sessions kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs" WARNING: ICE authority file /home/gene/.ICEauthorityis not readable by you! Please check permissions or set the $ICEAUTHORITY variable manually before calling dcop. [2020/12/19 20:16:00.554] DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket [2020/12/19 20:16:00.554] DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! [2020/12/19 20:16:06.556] DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket [2020/12/19 20:16:12.557] DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! If I take out the --all-sessions, I get this: root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "/opt/trinity/bin/dcop --user gene kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs" ERROR: Multiple available TDE sessions! Please specify the correct session to use with --session or use the --all-sessions option to broadcast to all sessions. Which sounds like it might work if --session was named, but whats a "session"? Thanks. > The two links* above Gene should do everything you need. There should > be no need to dig into ICEauthority or anything else. Yes you'll need > to edit the sudoers file, but there's plenty of google fu on how to do > that. > > Best, > Michael > > *In the second link see section: "Run only specific sudo commands > without password" > ____________________________________________________ > 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@trinity >desktop.org Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ 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
