su question

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/9/29 Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net>

> I have several timeshare employees that I would like to have share the
> same email account but not the same login. I thought I had a solution
> figured out by moving the thunderbird-profile to a directory they could
> all access. However thunderbird ignores umask and on closing sets the
> inbox as user rw no group permissions.
> I thought I would solve my problem with thunderbird resetting the inbox
> permissions different than umask by having my different users access the
> same thuderbird profile using su. I could just create a user for the
> thunderbird account set it up the way I wanted unfortunately it does not
> work.
> If I type  su username -c thunderbird

Well, as far as I know, su doesn't work in Ubuntu. There is no root password
anyway, so whatever password you enter, it's wrong… Or maybe it just doesn't
work for me…
Have you tried "sudo su" instead of just "su"? Then you just enter your own
password when asked.


>     instead of opening thunderbird
> I get this
>
> No protocol specified
>
> (thunderbird-bin:9606): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
>
>
> any ideas on how to get this to work.  These are users that I do not
> want to give any special permissions to.
>
>                              Thanks
>
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