Re: starting FF from command line...

[bruce]

hey guys...

Ok. logged out as user foo.. which got back to "root"

did a
  su - foo..

which got back to the term as the "foo" user..

was then able to do "firefox" from the cmd line. which fired up firefox.

O.. making a bit o' progress..

The tests ran as expected.. ...

Now, here's my next issue.:::

I do a ssh using keys into a remote term as user foo.

What needs to be done in the ssh, or on the remote box to be able to
"login/access" the remote box as the foo user in order to run firefox
there?

Thanks much guys..

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Rick Stevens  wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 03:11 PM, bruce wrote:
> > Hi Samuel.
> >
> > Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root,
> > and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then
> > does a
> >    firefox -p
>
> Make sure you do one of the following commands to do the su:
>     su - foo        --OR--
>     su -l foo       --OR--
>     su --login foo
>
> The "-", "-l" or "--login" parameter makes su change the spawned shell
> into a login shell:
>     o clears all the environment variables except TERM
>     o initializes the  environment  variables  HOME,  SHELL,
>       USER, LOGNAME, and PATH
>     o changes to the target user's home directory
>     o sets  argv[0] of the shell to '-' in order to make the
>       shell a login shell
>
>
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Sieb  wrote:
> > > On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote:
> > > > Test laptop. login as root, start FF from the menu no prob.
> > > >
> > > > Start a term as user foo. Try to start FF from the term, and get gconf
> > > > errors.
> > >
> > > How are you starting the terminal?  It sounds like you are root, but trying
> > > to run a terminal using a different user.  You have to be very careful as
> > > some environment variables and such get carried over and can cause issues
> > > with the new user session.
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