On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> 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". Didn't know you were sudoing to a specific user (not root), sorry. May work...the winuser would need to own the .wine directory and parent directory. You'd need to make sure that $DISPLAY and other variables are properly set. -- -Austin
