From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: cope with root and non root personalities? Date: 21 Jun 2002 22:59:27 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874rg0h5sr.fsf@jidanni.org> <200206201433.g5KEXrq18577@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bsa5v85r.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> <200206211630.g5LGU7a21070@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024694730 10054 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2002 21:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17LVuM-0002c3-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:25:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LVks-0006W5-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.84]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LVWh-0005iS-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17LVWc-0003WJ-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:00:58 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 17LVWc-00066b-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:00:58 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 17LVWb-0000Bh-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:00:57 +0200 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1024693257 07 416 9jkBbgGSrAVRG 020621 21:00:57 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2198 rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes: > On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root. > On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses. Or use tramp (it's available in current CVS, if you don't want to get it separately) and edit /[sum/root@localhost]/whatever This will start an su session and use it to transfer mmencoded files into and out of Emacs. Transparently. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de