Starting programs as another user

[Gilboa Davara]

If you don't want to use sudo, you can type the following:

$ su -c 'su <user_name> -c <program name>'

Gilboa

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.
> 
> How can I get around this situation? I have tried to enter the user as
> user:password, but that just prevented it from working properly (as if
> I had entered an invalid user name). I would not mind making a
> system-wide setting that says "everything that user A tries to do in
> the name of user B, he can do without a password."
> 
> Dotan
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