ChristTrekker wrote: > > austin987 wrote: > > Do you not know what sudo does? > > It lets one user execute a command as another user, as long as he is authorized to do so in the sudoers file. > > ct@mybox$ sudo -u winuser wine start someapp.exe > > This would let me (ct) run wine out of wineprefix ~winuser/.wine - right? How does any root access occur? Am I missing something? > > Sudo also has many other options to configure the environment for commands thus executed, that may be useful to get this to work "correctly". A regular "sudo" is exactly that - "Super User DO". Using the -u flag rather temporarily logs you in as a different user for the duration of the command.
