Re: Syncing multiple IMAP/ user accounts

[Daniel Meszaros <spam@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Vincent Beffara schrieb:
> (Assuming you are running linux or something similar.)

Yes.


> If you have root access to your machine, you could always make a special
> user who is a sudoer with no password but can only run offlineimap as
> whoever he wants - and let _her_ have a crontab entry to do what you
> want.
> 
> * * * * * sudo -u joe offlineimap
> * * * * * sudo -u jane offlineimap

I've never played around with "sudo" up to now. What I've seen is that
I'd have to edit /etc/sudoers. Will this make it possible for root to
work with joe or jane's permissions also if they do not have a shell
assigned in /etc/passwd?

> (or put that in root's crontab, if you're not too worried).

Thank you for your help.

Ciao,
Daniel.