Re: what 'user' are acpi scripts run as? Forcing DCOP to look at current user?

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0500, Birt, Jeffrey wrote:
> I am assuming that the acpi scripts are run as 'system' (or what ever the
> Linux equivelent is) and therefore any DCOP related calls are looking at
> the 'systems' DCOP server not the current user.

I believe they're executed as root.

> So, can I force a script to run as another user?  that is have the acpi
> script which is being run as 'system' call another script as the current
> user?

Yes -- use 'su -c' to do this.

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