On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in
> kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my
> mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that
> I can have two pine sessions running at the same time, one for my 'regular'
> mail and one for this subset of mailing lists. Is there a way I can set up
> a menu item that access pine from that user's point of view while being
> logged in as my 'default' user? Or is the only way for me to do this to
> open up a konsole window, telnet to localhost, log in as that user and
> _then_ start pine?

You could use ssh and have the command be something like:
        ssh -t -l user2 localhost pine
Then all you have to do is type in your password for user2.

-- 
Ashley Clark

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