From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
36583@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:57:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sgqhnqpi.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtvbcvnhk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:30:27 -0400")
Another breakage discovered today: it's impossible to do X forwarding
with an unbroken emacs configuration.
If you do:
- ssh -Y someserver
- /bin/su - root
then the DISPLAY variable set by "ssh -Y" is lost and it's impossible to
do X forwarding.
Doing just "/bin/su" (which I used to do before the last debian upgrade)
gives me a broken emacs configuration (because ~sb/.emacs is used but
ELPA packages under ~sb/.emacs.d/ are not used).
(And as Lars has pointed out elsewhere in this thread: the emacs
configuration of root should be tighter and more security conscious than
the configuration of a regular user. So just including the .emacs.d/ of
the original user may not be the appropriate fix)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-04 10:57 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
2019-07-23 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-04 10:57 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
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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