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Re: su command...
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: su command... |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:30:52 -0400 |
> Please, how can I execute the following idea: $ su gimp &
> but really in bacground?
I can not figure out what you want to do, but you might try=20
this :
if [[ $(grep gimp /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f1) == "gimp" ]]; then su - gimp;
else su -; export DISPLAY=:0.0; gimp &; logout; fi;
In the hope that this may help.
I think you are overengineering the solution, the OP just wanted to
execute gimp as root, and spawn it to background.
The following would do the trick: su -c gimp &
Also, your solution will not work on anything that uses LDAP, NIS, ...