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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.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.

       reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1011.1065098708.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-02 14:55 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.970.1065058887.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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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