From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>,
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:04:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wogr0ybf.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190709191532.GE15938@tuxteam.de>
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 09:00:11PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
>> Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> >> 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
>
> Have you checked the environment? What does $HOME say? (although the
> "su -" part lets one expect that the HOME var is set anew: checking
> won't hurt :-)
echo $HOME gave /root after both su methods
>
> Cheers
> -- t
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 20:04 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
2019-07-09 19:15 ` tomas
2019-07-09 20:04 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2019-07-09 20:20 ` tomas
2019-07-10 14:42 ` Nick Dokos
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