cesarino vinh <cesarinovin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's
> safer :S
Safer than what...?
> How can I do that? I'm using wright now the "gksu" - and then run as user...
> so I can't make a shell script to do that, and I don't want to modify the
> browser's executable, and I'm not in programming, but the solution is to
> write an eg. C program to launch the browser, and then set SUID bit fot that
> C app?
Use sudo and a script that sets up the environment appropriately
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script is safe ONLY if you can guarantee no other users are
# running programs on this system
####################################################################
#
xhost +local:
sudo -H -u otheruser DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" firefox "$@"
Then you add an entry in /etc/sudoers that allows you to sudo to the
user "otheruser" and run the firefox program (or whatever your preferred
browser is).
Chris
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