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login as root but run script as guest
Posted: 14 Dec 2015, 23:32
by francois
I am working in root mode. I would like to create a script to start chromium as user guest, from one command line if possible without having to issue the password for guest. Is this possible?
Re: starting package with a script for user guest
Posted: 15 Dec 2015, 01:40
by brokenman
Re: starting package with a script for user guest
Posted: 15 Dec 2015, 03:53
by aus9
su - guest -c chromium
I am not sure if that will work but in a test of mtpaint I changed to root and then ran
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su -c guest mtpaint
su: user mtpaint does not exist
but this does work
so as I don't have chromium installed I would suggest
Re: starting package with a script for user guest
Posted: 15 Dec 2015, 04:07
by francois
aus9, you have the winning combination.
Thanks to both of you.
Re: starting package with a script for user guest
Posted: 15 Dec 2015, 12:37
by brokenman
Sorry mixed the order. The correct aproach would be:
su guest -
Starts a login shell for guest with guest environment.
-c command
Runs a command for su