From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
To: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 19:40:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B6632F-49C3-4C40-A559-D839FEE11061@easesoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864l3w18ae.fsf@dod.no>
> On Jul 8, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>
> debian 10.0 "buster", amd64
> emacs 26.1
>
> I do /bin/su to change the user to root.
> HOME is set to /root
>
> However emacs still tries to load /home/sb/.emacs
>
> How can I make emacs stop loading the original user's .emacs when logged
> in as root?
Can you do “id” after you do the su? Usually “su - root” is the suggested method.
The ‘-‘ causes the users environment to get loaded or something. Never looked
too deep into it.
I suspect one of your uid’s is not root… euid, ruid, etc. and emacs is doing
some type of get user attributes and its returning the real user’s home rather
than the effective user’s home.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 22:16 How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? Steinar Bang
2019-07-08 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-11 17:59 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:09 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:24 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 19:03 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 2:56 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-12 16:11 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-12 21:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-13 5:30 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-13 15:04 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-13 18:04 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-09 0:40 ` Perry Smith [this message]
2019-07-09 19:00 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 19:15 ` tomas
2019-07-09 20:04 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 20:20 ` tomas
2019-07-10 14:42 ` Nick Dokos
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