From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
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: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:30:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtvbcvnhk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86muh4svr3.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:53:04 +0200")
> 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.
Indeed, as a first-approximation, it uses "~$LOGNAME/.emacs" but "$HOME/.emacs.d/elpa/".
In many circumstances "~$LOGNAME/" is the same as "$HOME/", and in yet
other circumstances Emacs uses "$HOME/.emacs" (which I find very handy)
rather than "~$LOGNAME/.emacs".
I'd rather we drop this special case of using "~$LOGNAME/.emacs" when we
decide that we're in "su". I know it's long standing behavior, but
there are many other ways for the user to get the same result, so
I think we can get rid of this dangerous quirk.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-23 14:30 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 [this message]
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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