From: Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@home.se>
Subject: Re: Running emacs as root
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:33:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765fnr1ti.fsf@home.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d365ef4b.0401071045.7f8a841b@posting.google.com
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 19:33 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 [this message]
2004-01-08 3:54 ` Ted Weatherly
2004-01-08 23:36 ` Micha Feigin
2004-01-11 1:11 ` gebser
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