[Wine] Re: confused newbie
DaVince
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Aug 4 19:35:43 CDT 2009
ChristTrekker wrote:
>
> austin987 wrote:
> > Do you not know what sudo does?
>
> It lets one user execute a command as another user, as long as he is authorized to do so in the sudoers file.
>
> ct at mybox$ sudo -u winuser wine start someapp.exe
>
> This would let me (ct) run wine out of wineprefix ~winuser/.wine - right? How does any root access occur? Am I missing something?
>
> Sudo also has many other options to configure the environment for commands thus executed, that may be useful to get this to work "correctly".
A regular "sudo" is exactly that - "Super User DO". Using the -u flag rather temporarily logs you in as a different user for the duration of the command.
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