From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <86sgqhnqpi.fsf@dod.no> References: <87ims94p6p.fsf@dod.no> <86muh4svr3.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="188278"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 36583@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 04 12:58:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDW-000mrB-BO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDV-0001eC-DD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDF-0001dt-5N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDD-0002Lf-81 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDC-0002LP-7W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huEDC-00076G-63 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Steinar Bang Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix notabug Original-Received: via spool by 36583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36583.156491622127210 (code B ref 36583); Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Aug 2019 10:57:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60488 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huECD-00074j-Ht for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([46.43.15.90]:47224 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huECA-00074U-Ju for 36583@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mccoy (cm-84.212.62.210.getinternet.no [84.212.62.210]) by cadalora.bang.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 51CB6CD469; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 11:56:52 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:30:27 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164545 Archived-At: 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)