[gentoo-dev] Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

[gentoo-dev] Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

[wOmbad]

Hi,

to completely apply the portrait screen orientation to my tff display i 
usually run a little script (attached) as standart user. Yesterday i 
build a hardware display orientation sensor connected via parallel port. 
I wrote a little c program for polling the state. This has to be run as 
root!

Does anybody know how to realize the same task as the script - but from 
a root console?

Regards and Thank you in advance
wOmbad
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:34:22 +0200 wOmbad <wombad83@gmx.net> wrote:
| to completely apply the portrait screen orientation to my tff display
| i usually run a little script (attached) as standart user. Yesterday
| i build a hardware display orientation sensor connected via parallel
| port. I wrote a little c program for polling the state. This has to
| be run as root!

You should ask this on the gentoo-user list.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

[Duncan]

wOmbad posted <433AD41E.2070209@gmx.net>, excerpted below,  on Wed, 28 Sep
2005 19:34:22 +0200:

> Does anybody know how to realize the same task as the script - but from 
> a root console?

While Ciaran's correct, this should have been posted to user, here's one
answer: emerge sudo (if necessary), and run sudo -u <username> script.

You may also want to look into configuring sudo so certain users may use
it to run certain commands as root (or other users), with or without
supplying their user password (NOT the root user password, which may not
be the best idea to give to users needing to run only one or two commands
as root).  Groking all the config options can be a bit complex (nothing a
C programmer shouldn't easily master), but sudo can be tremendously
useful, once it's setup correctly, helping one avoid the fat-finger danger
(as well as the security danger) of logging in as root unnecessarily.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

[Jan Kundrát]

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Duncan wrote:
> You may also want to look into configuring sudo so certain users may use

FYI, we have Sudo Guide [1] in our documentation.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml

Cheers,
-jkt

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