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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>, 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: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:00:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736jf2fus.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B6632F-49C3-4C40-A559-D839FEE11061@easesoftware.com>

Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:

>> On Jul 8, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>> 
>> debian 10.0 "buster", amd64
>> emacs 26.1

Same here but emacs 27.

>> 
>> I do /bin/su to change the user to root. HOME is set to /root
>> 
>> However emacs still tries to load /home/sb/.emacs

I had the same happen here.

>> 
>> 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.

After su;

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

After su - root;

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

but after this latter way of getting root emacs did not try to load
/home/tomas/.emacs

Just metooing

Best regards
--
Tomas



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09 19:00 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
2019-07-09 19:00   ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
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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