I'm Beaten

Willis gods-servant at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 9 05:33:44 UTC 2007


Chris wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:54:45 -0600
> Willis <gods-servant at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Chris wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:38:34 -0600
>>> Willis <gods-servant at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I installed esword4ubuntu_1.7 so many times and so many different
>>>> ways that I give up.  When I check the directory 
>>>> /usr/apps/local/esword4ubuntu from either login, root or user, I
>>>> see exactly the same thing.  And on checking the Launch command on
>>>> both logins is /usr/apps/local/esword4ubuntu/runesword and yet it
>>>> runs from the root and nothing at all happens from the user
>>>> directroy. Remember, I've installed from both director root and
>>>> user with the exact same result.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a permission I might need to change?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Pardon my ignorance, but why not use Synaptec and install
>>> gnomesword? Sounds like you are building/installing from a source
>>> tarball?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Sorry, I missed it the first time but not really, it's a deb file.
>> And it works perfectly from the root login.
>>
>>     
>
> Just a though - if it works as root, why not grant your non-root login
> sudo access by adding it to the /etc/sudors file.
>
> man sudoers (IIRC) has some examples on how to allow an app to be ran
> sudo'd 
>
>   
where would I find sudoers?




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