From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
36583@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:53:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86muh4svr3.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1hm58n-0003kd-LO@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:39:49 -0400")
>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> I think I asked for this feature so that when I run Emacs as root I
> will get the commands I am accustomed to.
FWIW What broke things for me, was that it reads the .emacs file from
/home/sb directory, but it doesn't read /home/sb/.emacs.d/elpa/ and
therefore doesn't find the packages my .emacs refers to, so that startup
breaks in the middle of the setup and nothing works as expected.
If it had used my regular config fully, I never would have noticed.
The root user has a functional .emacs, but a much slimmer one. I've
basically customized away the behaviour I dislike. Either .emacs
(ie. /home/sb/.emacs or /root/.emacs) would have worked for me if they
could have run without failing.
(PS sorry for coming late to the discussion I originated. My incoming email
broke as a result of an openssl change in a debian version upgrade and I
haven't received email since July 11 until today, and didn't receive the
initial debbug response. And sorry if I came through as rude on emacs-help)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-23 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 20:20 bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root Steinar Bang
2019-07-10 20:50 ` Glenn Morris
2019-07-11 22:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-11 23:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-12 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-12 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-12 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-13 9:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-13 9:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-13 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-13 23:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-13 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-13 23:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-15 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-15 13:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-15 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-23 13:53 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2019-07-23 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-04 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-12 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 15:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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