su question

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:27:19PM -0500, Linda wrote:
> I have several timeshare employees that I would like to have share the 
> same email account but not the same login. I thought I had a solution 
> figured out by moving the thunderbird-profile to a directory they could 
> all access. 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


They can all use popmail from the same account but a mail alias might be
what your really looking for.

Ruben

> 
> No protocol specified
> 
> (thunderbird-bin:9606): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> 
> 
> any ideas on how to get this to work.  These are users that I do not 
> want to give any special permissions to.
> 
>                               Thanks
> 
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