From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Running emacs as root
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 01:36:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108233614.GA21718@luna.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d365ef4b.0401071954.4e957f9@posting.google.com>
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:54:27PM -0800, Ted Weatherly wrote:
> Is there a way to change my environment while executing a command?
>
You can append the environment setting on the commend line, for example
<var>=<value> <command>
will run <command> with <var>=<value> in its environment.
> Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@home.se> wrote in message news:<8765fnr1ti.fsf@home.se>...
> > tbonemp3@yahoo.com (Ted Weatherly) writes:
> >
> > > To run emacs as root, I normally 'su' then 'emacs'. I'd like to
> > > create a script to simplify this. I try:
> > >
> > > sudo -u root /bin/sh -c "emacs"
> > >
> > > ...and I'm able to edit files as root. But when I run a shell within
> > > emacs, my prompt displays as if I'm a regular user (i.e. it shows as
> > > "/tmp> " but I want "/tmp# "). So it appears as if emacs is using the
> > > .profile of the regular user. How do I fix this?
> >
> > sudo doesn't change your environment, you'd have to use su for that.
> >
> > > Perhaps there is a better way to launch emacs as root?
> >
> > I use tramp.el (see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tramp/) to open
> > files as root with sudo within the running emacs. When tramp is
> > installed simply do "C-x f /sudo:root@localhost:/path/to/file".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-07 18:45 Running emacs as root Ted Weatherly
2004-01-07 19:33 ` Henrik Enberg
2004-01-08 3:54 ` Ted Weatherly
2004-01-08 23:36 ` Micha Feigin [this message]
2004-01-11 1:11 ` gebser
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