From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 14401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14401: su - nobody -c emacs gives "Could not open file: /dev/tty"
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:53:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmnrf7=thiNSjTwR6gOhTPSm=U6fnU2vzMAhM8x4dB7Bg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738tpjy4w.fsf@jidanni.org>
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> Odd,
>
> # (unset DISPLAY; su - nobody -c emacs)
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> emacs: Could not open file: /dev/tty
>
> doesn't work anymore. One needs two steps,
>
> # (unset DISPLAY; su - nobody)
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> nobody@jidanni2:/$ emacs
>
> Also one can test with su nobody with no -.
I can't reproduce the recipe easily since the user nobody has no
password on my machine.
Is this a bug in Emacs though? To me, it seems more like some quirk
of how su works in this case. Does the above work with other
programs, for example "top" or something?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-14 16:59 bug#14401: su - nobody -c emacs gives "Could not open file: /dev/tty" jidanni
2019-09-30 15:53 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-10-01 2:01 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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