You should never run a program as root. That's always a bad idea for exploits. That being said I'm not sure what you mean by "access to exactly the same Local files when acting as root" do you mean mail, or calendars or everything? If you graphically log into root can you start a terminal and then type #> su bill -c "evolution" This should run evolution as your unprivileged user named bill. You can check if this is true or not by running `ps -aux` and seeing the user name beside evlolution. You can read the man page of `su` for more info (`man su` from command line). You should also set up sendmail or postfix to direct any mail that may be for root to your underprivileged user though the alias file. You'll have to google for that, but usually it's in /etc/postfix/ or /etc/aliases for sendmail (I think...) HTH's Chris On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 16:21, William Case wrote:
This should be an easy one but it is driving me crazy! Me and root are the same guy. I use Evolution as my primary PIM but I want access to exactly the same Local files (not just shared files) whenever I am acting as root as I have when I am user. As root I should have access to all user files but I have tried every command line and permission I can think of but I still have a separate set of Local Files for root. Can anyone tell me how to make Evolution load my Local Files from root? Bill _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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