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emrys404
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 Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: [RESOLVED] Launch firefox as different user/profile |
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Hello,
I used to be able to su into a different user in a terminal and then launch firefox and it would launch with that users profile/settings.
Then gradually it would do it only once in a while and now it wont do it at all, it only launches the logged in users firefox.
How can i fix this?
Thanks in advance
-emrys
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no_hope
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Are you using "su - username"? If you omit - environmental variable will not initialize for the new user. You could also use sudo to do what you want -- it might be a little more convenient
edit: also:
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-P <profile> Start with <profile>.
-ProfileManager Start with Profile Manager.
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emrys404
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Excellent, thanks! That was it.
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