Using Emacs as root ?

Using Emacs as root ?

[William Case]

Hi;

Kind of an Emacs beginner's question.

I do only a little programming -- occasionally writing bash scripts;
that kind of thing.  I mainly use emacs from my desktop launcher to edit
text files like my .bashrc etc.

The other day I was reading up on man smb.conf in my gterminal and
wanted to make some minor changes to smb.conf.  I needed to open a new
tab in the gterminal; su; then run emacs /etc/samba/smb.conf.  That's OK
if that is what emacs is designed to do.  But is there a way to launch
emacs and use some command in the emacs input line that will directly
open a root protected file while I am user, perhaps combined with C-x
C-f?  Is there some key combination I can set up?
-- 
Regards Bill

Re: Using Emacs as root ?

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> Hi;
>
> Kind of an Emacs beginner's question.
>
> I do only a little programming -- occasionally writing bash scripts;
> that kind of thing.  I mainly use emacs from my desktop launcher to edit
> text files like my .bashrc etc.
>
> The other day I was reading up on man smb.conf in my gterminal and
> wanted to make some minor changes to smb.conf.  I needed to open a new
> tab in the gterminal; su; then run emacs /etc/samba/smb.conf.  That's OK
> if that is what emacs is designed to do.  But is there a way to launch
> emacs and use some command in the emacs input line that will directly
> open a root protected file while I am user, perhaps combined with C-x
> C-f?  Is there some key combination I can set up?

Try 

C-x C-f /sudo:root@localhost:/

Or use su instead of sudo if you don't use sudo.  You can get more
information in the info pages of Tramp in Emacs.

Xiao-Yong

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Re: Using Emacs as root ?

[Thorsten Bonow]

>>>>> "William" == William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

    William> [...] But is there a
    William> way to launch emacs and use some command in the emacs input line
    William> that will directly open a root protected file while I am user,
    William> perhaps combined with C-x C-f?  Is there some key combination I can
    William> set up?  -- Regards Bill

Hi, maybe you should try the "tramp" package which is great for accessing remote
files or ones which belong to a different user or root.

It's described in the Emacs Wiki, which I would recommend as a first place to
look for everything Emacs related...

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode

Hope this helps...

Toto



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