Good day.


I ask for Your help in running of a program using sux.
Here several my vain tryings and its outputs - hope it will explain the situation itself.

$ sux -c kate edit
Unknown id: eval $TERM; exec env TERM='xterm' DISPLAY=':0' "kate" "edit";

$ sux -m -c kate edit
getent: invalid option -- c
Try `getent --help' or `getent --usage' for more information.
WARNING: --preserve-environment has been set, but no good value was found for XAUTHORITY, expect trouble
Unknown id: eval $TERM; exec env TERM='xterm' DISPLAY=':0' "kate" "edit";

$ sux --help
Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Options:
-c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-, -l, --login make the shell a login shell
-m, -p,
--preserve-environment do not reset environment variables, and
keep the same shell
-s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default in passwd

So, I need to run a command w/ sux - and not to use a shell for the user and then run the program - as the sux command is being run from a script and therefore nobody can enter command once a shell has been started.


Thanks for Your time.

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Hi Stu,

> $ sux -c kate edit
> Unknown id: eval $TERM; exec env TERM='xterm' DISPLAY=':0'
> "kate" "edit";
>
> $ sux -m -c kate edit
> getent: invalid option -- c
> Try `getent --help' or `getent --usage' for more information.
> WARNING: --preserve-environment has been set, but no good value was
> found for XAUTHORITY, expect trouble
> Unknown id: eval $TERM; exec env TERM='xterm' DISPLAY=':0'
> "kate" "edit";
>
> $ sux --help
> Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

It looks like --help is passed through to su. Try
$ sux '-?'
usage: sux [-m|-p|--preserve-environment]
[--display display]
[--no-cookies|--copy-cookies|--use-xauthority]
[--untrusted] [--timeout x]
[-] [username [command]]

So you would need
$ sux root kate


As an alternative, set up sudo and run
$ sudo kate

Or for the specific case of running an editor, use sudoedit with your
chosen editor in the EDITOR environment variable e.g.
export EDITOR=kate
$ sudoedit filename


I hope this helps.


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On Mon 4 Jan 2010 11:55:02 +0000(+0000), Clive Standbridge wrote:
> Hi Stu,

Sorry I misspelled Sthu.



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Thank You for Your time and answer, Clive:

>It looks like --help is passed through to su. Try
>$ sux '-?'
>usage: sux [-m|-p|--preserve-environment]
> [--display display]
> [--no-cookies|--copy-cookies|--use-xauthority]
> [--untrusted] [--timeout x]
> [-] [username [command]]

Wow! Never would guess myself!

>So you would need
>$ sux root kate

So easy!

>As an alternative, set up sudo and run
>$ sudo kate

No. I need to run it under another user (edit, in my case).

>I hope this helps.

It did.


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Thank You for Your time and answer, Clive:

>Sorry I misspelled Sthu.

That's OK.
Thank You for Your answer, once again!


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