From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:29:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336joe6xl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r2788nii.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:27:49 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:27:49 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Emacs is somewhat unusual among editors you might fire up as root in
> that it might create or write files and directories in $HOME without the
> user knowing
Doesn't the shell (e.g., Bash) do the same by putting there
.bash_history etc.?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-01 18:01 Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo Jeffrey Walton
2019-07-02 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 6:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-02 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 15:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-02 17:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 6:16 ` Teemu Likonen
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