[jp] how to sync without having to press BOTH buttons in Jpilot and my PDA

On Die, 09 Mai 2006, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 05:00 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
> > By setting "ralvy" in /etc/udev/rules.d wouldn't this limit it to only
> > one user?.  Maybe something like `whoami` might work 
> 
> But now you're opening a potential hole in the system by executing two
> shells for that one process. I'd rely on environment variables instead,
> perhaps $USER, $USERNAME or $LOGNAME in this case, which should all
> reference the same user. Maybe even point jpilot-sync's homedir to
> $HOME/$USERNAME or some such. 

None of this can work, or am I wrong? The udev rules are executed as
root, so how should the root user determine to which user it should be
synced.

Best wishes

Norbert

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