Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:01:49 -0600 From: kitsune <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: Dennis <4real@home.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running X program under different user Message-ID: <20030215070149.7b96478d.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4E7786.2010809@home.nl> References: <3E4E7786.2010809@home.nl>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:23:18 +0100 Dennis <4real@home.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a former kde user, using Windowmaker now.... > > And in the past i always used RUN in kde, to startup my favourite irc > client... > > RUN had several options to execute programs under a different user etc, > which comes in handy when using IRC... if that run thing was a command that can be done then it can still be used under windowmaker... > But now i need to use SU i think to accomplish this, but it doesnt work :( wierd it works here... su <username> -c <command> example... su kitsune -c scilab this will su user kitsune and then run scilab > Does anyone know which command i can use to execute an X program under a > different user? this will work too... ssh 127.0.0.1 -X -l <username> the -X turns on X forwarding To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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