On Sunday 20 December 2020 06:53:00 Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote: > 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-use > > > >r -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. > So did I, and my recent experience seems to back that up. But I also had forgotten you have to reboot to make the logins aware of changes to sudoers, possibly my mistake? After 22 years, I'm still learning the details of linux :-) > 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@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
