<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'> <div> <font size="2">Why not?<br> <br> I need to be able to run tasks consecutively for two different users (root and Louise). How do you suggest this be accomplished if it's "impossible" to use sudo with dbus?<br> </font> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org><br> To: Louise Baldwin <louiserbaldwin@aol.com><br> Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 6:14 pm<br> Subject: Re: How to interact with existing dbus session through sudo?<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_a80542a9-0c9f-4987-bb8f-67518683b642" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>One user cannot connect to another user's session bus. That's why you should not do it: because it doesn't work. Redesign your solution. Em dom 16 mar 2014 16:31:00 você escreveu: > Could you please explain a) how I would do it and b) why you don't recommend > it? > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thiago Macieira <<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org">thiago@kde.org</a>> > To: dbus <<a href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org">dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> > Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 12:14 pm > Subject: Re: How to interact with existing dbus session through sudo? > > Em dom 16 mar 2014, às 08:56:18, Louise Baldwin escreveu: > > How can I go about accessing an existing dbus session through sudo? > > You shouldn't do that. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>