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GOS
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Sep 2010
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Location: Germany
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 Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:38 am Post subject: [solved] Firefox with gksudo |
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Hello everyone,
I hope that I am posting in the right subforum.
I want to start firefox by my regular user "abc" via another user "inet". This is because for security resasons "abc" has no access to the internet at all. Thereby firefox should use the home-directory of "inet" to store ".mozilla". "inet" has the home-direcorty "/home/inet" and is member of the groups "inet" "video" and "audio". (Are "video" and "audio" necessary?)
I installed "sudo" and "gksudo" and added the following lines to "/etc/sudoers" (in fact they are the only lines therein):
| Code: | Defaults:%wheel !env_reset
abc mypc=(inet) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/firefox |
If i run now from "abc" the command "sudo -u inet firefox" i get
| Code: | (process:9504): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
No protocol specified
Error: cannot open display: :0.0
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If i run now from "abc" the command "gksudo -u inet firefox" nothing happens at all
What I am doing wrong? Any ideas?
Best regards
GOS
Last edited by GOS on Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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EmaRsk
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Location: Italy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Try this command before starting firefox:
It gives to the other local users the permission to connect to the current X session (or something like that, I'm not sure I'm using the correct terminology).
You can put it in .xinitrc or whatever you use to start X.
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GOS
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot. That was what i needed. |
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