su question

[Florian Diesch]

Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> 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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