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From: andrew.maguire@ps.ge.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: buffer uid
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:30:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6192367D59F8904CA553579EF41FEEA001F45FCE@ukcbgx01psge.geips.ge.com> (raw)

> Is it possible to open a buffer and edit it as a different user?  In
> other words, if I have two user accounts, can I run emacs from one
> account and edit a file owned by the other account (and not writable
> by the account running emacs)?

If you have ftp access then you can try and use find-file with a path:

/user@host:/path/to/file

you will then be prompted for a password if necessary.
host can be "localhost" to use the same machine.
You can omit "user@" if you want to login as yourself.

Andrew

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-16 13:30 UTC|newest]

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2003-10-16 13:30 andrew.maguire [this message]
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2003-10-18  7:05 ` buffer uid Tim X
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2003-10-10 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-10 20:33 ` J-P Theberge
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2003-10-10 17:48 Arthur Davis

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