Dear Gene, Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2020 schrieb Gene Heskett via tde-users: > > > 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 editing /etc/sudoers to my understanding has no effect on 'su' because the two are different things. I read this recently on debian-users, I think. HTH Kind regards, Stefan ____________________________________________________ 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