su question

[Linda]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2008/9/29 Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:haniganwork at earthlink.net>>
>
>     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
>
> Well, as far as I know, su doesn't work in Ubuntu. There is no root 
> password anyway, so whatever password you enter, it's wrong… Or maybe 
> it just doesn't work for me…
> Have you tried "sudo su" instead of just "su"? Then you just enter 
> your own password when asked.
>
>
Actually I have su installed so I can change to be a different user, the 
advantage here is you have to know the users password to do it. I do not 
want to give them adminstrative permissions