Re: su question

Linda <haniganwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have several timeshare employees that I would like to have share the
same email account but not the same login.

I would setup a local IMAP server (dovecot is quite easy).

I thought I had a solution
figured out by moving the thunderbird-profile to a directory they could
all access.

As only one Thunderbird instance can use a profile your users can use
that email account in parallel.

However thunderbird ignores umask and on closing sets the
inbox as user rw no group permissions.
I thought I would solve my problem with thunderbird resetting the inbox
permissions different than umask by having my different users access the
same thuderbird profile using su. I could just create a user for the
thunderbird account set it up the way I wanted unfortunately it does not
work.
If I type su username -c thunderbird instead of opening thunderbird
I get this

No protocol specified

(thunderbird-bin:9606): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

any ideas on how to get this to work.

username needs access permission to the calling user's X
display. Either give that permission manually using xauth or use gksu
or sux instead of su.





Florian
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