From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: letting super user read .emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:55:55 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <%%Web.144$pd.72@news.level3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1011.1065098708.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.1011.1065098708.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote:
>Perhaps my original message wasn't clear enough. This is the problem. We
>are not allowed to have any permissions for "others" on our home
>directories.
But they allow you to su to each other? Seems schizophrenic that they're
so draconian about file permissions, while so lenient about su'ing.
> Thank you for your replies, but they won't help me. What I
>was thinking was to put my .emacs in a directory outside of my home
>directory (that way the directory can have any permits I want).
emacs -q -l /path/to/other/.emacs
The -q option tells it not to try to load the default init file, and -l
option tells it to load that specific file.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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2003-10-02 14:55 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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2003-10-02 5:40 ` letting super user read .emacs Kin Cho
2003-10-02 6:08 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-02 7:45 ` Puff Addison
2003-10-02 12:44 ` Kevin Dziulko
2003-10-01 16:09 Kevin Dziulko
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