Running opera as a different user in linux

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I am trying to run multiple opera instances as different users simultaneously in linux mint. I have done it with firefox in the past using the sux command like sux user1 firefox

But if i try that with opera (sux user1 opera), nothing happens, it doesn't show any errors and opera wont open. ps aux | grep opera shows nothing.

I tried full paths, and sudo user1 and thenxhost localhost; opera (which also works with firefox), and sudo -u user1 opera but had the same results.

How can i run opera as a different user in linux?

EDIT:

Just found that if i create the user using the linux mint "User Accounts" GUI, then it works fine. What could be different from using adduser command?

klinmar

Posted 2014-11-17T05:49:54.070

Reputation: 1

Works for me using kdesu (part of the KDE framework) and I seem to recall gksu exists for Gnome - maybe you can try those (or another alternative to sux)? – GregC – 2014-11-17T12:52:00.547

Tried gksu yesterday and got the same results, command just returns to the shell without any error or message, and opera doesn't open. If I add "-h" it does show the help message, so it seems the command runs but it fails to start silently, and I didn't see any verbosity option to change. – klinmar – 2014-11-17T16:56:20.380

Answers

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Use the Opera portable version ; started from different Directories.

CommKC

Posted 2014-11-17T05:49:54.070

Reputation: 1

Still wont open as different user, which i need to later use iptables -m owner module to send each browser to a different interface. I know I can use pid but pids change and the user wont. – klinmar – 2014-11-17T06:23:32.127

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