Re: Starting programs as another user

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To: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Starting programs as another user
From: Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:54:54 -0400
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On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In KDE, it is possible to add programs to the K menu that will be
> started as another user. However, each time I start a program fro the
> K menu as another user, it asks me for the user's password, with no
> option of storing it.

I have little to no experience with KDE.

However, If you need to run a command as another user the sudoers file
is your friend. Please read the sudoers man page:

$ man sudoers

It was designed for this exact purpose. You will want to use the
NOPASSWD keyword.

--
Craig

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