hey guys...
Ok. logged out as user foo.. which got back to "root"
did a
su - foo..
which got back to the term as the "foo" user..
was then able to do "firefox" from the cmd line. which fired up firefox.
O.. making a bit o' progress..
The tests ran as expected.. ...
Now, here's my next issue.:::
I do a ssh using keys into a remote term as user foo.
What needs to be done in the ssh, or on the remote box to be able to
"login/access" the remote box as the foo user in order to run firefox
there?
Thanks much guys..
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 03:11 PM, bruce wrote:
>> Hi Samuel.
>>
>> Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root,
>> and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then
>> does a
>> firefox -p
>
> Make sure you do one of the following commands to do the su:
>
> su - foo --OR--
> su -l foo --OR--
> su --login foo
>
> The "-", "-l" or "--login" parameter makes su change
the spawned shell
> into a login shell:
>
> o clears all the environment variables except TERM
> o initializes the environment variables HOME, SHELL,
> USER, LOGNAME, and PATH
> o changes to the target user's home directory
> o sets argv[0] of the shell to '-' in order to make the
> shell a login shell
>
>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
>>> On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Test laptop. login as root, start FF from the menu no prob.
>>>>
>>>> Start a term as user foo. Try to start FF from the term, and get gconf
>>>> errors.
>>>>
>>> How are you starting the terminal? It sounds like you are root, but trying
>>> to run a terminal using a different user. You have to be very careful as
>>> some environment variables and such get carried over and can cause issues
>>> with the new user session.
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