letting super user read .emacs

letting super user read .emacs

[Kevin Dziulko]

Hello

Recently our unix system was changed such that all regular users are their 
own groups also.  So user johndoe would be in group johndoe and 
permissions on johndoe's home directory are drwxrwx---.  This was done for 
security reasons.

My question is, is there any way the emacs will read in a .emacs that is 
not located in one's home directory?

My problem is that when I use the su command to become another user, I am 
forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my own.  So I was 
thinking about putting my .emacs in a directory that is readable to all 
users.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Kin Cho]

> My problem is that when I use the su command to become another
> user, I am forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my
> own.

While su'ed as another user, use "emacs -u your-login".

-kin

Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Lute Kamstra]

Kin Cho <kin@techie.com> writes:

>> My problem is that when I use the su command to become another
>> user, I am forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my
>> own.
>
> While su'ed as another user, use "emacs -u your-login".

You may also have to do "chmod o+r .emacs".

  Lute.

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Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Puff Addison]

Lute Kamstra wrote:

>Kin Cho <kin@techie.com> writes:
>
>  
>
>>>My problem is that when I use the su command to become another
>>>user, I am forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my
>>>own.
>>>      
>>>
>>While su'ed as another user, use "emacs -u your-login".
>>    
>>
>
>You may also have to do "chmod o+r .emacs".
>
>  Lute.
>
>  
>
You will probably also have to do "chmod o+x <home directory> "   for 
this to work.

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Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Kevin Dziulko]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Puff Addison wrote:

> Lute Kamstra wrote:
> 
> >Kin Cho <kin@techie.com> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>My problem is that when I use the su command to become another
> >>>user, I am forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my
> >>>own.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>While su'ed as another user, use "emacs -u your-login".
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You may also have to do "chmod o+r .emacs".
> >
> >  Lute.
> >
> >  
> >
> You will probably also have to do "chmod o+x <home directory> "   for 
> this to work.
> 
> 

Perhaps my original message wasn't clear enough. This is the problem. We 
are not allowed to have any permissions for "others" on our home 
directories.  Thank you for your replies, but they won't help me.  What I 
was thinking was to put my .emacs in a directory outside of my home 
directory (that way the directory can have any permits I want).

Thanks again.

Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1011.1065098708.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Dziulko  <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote:
>Perhaps my original message wasn't clear enough. This is the problem. We 
>are not allowed to have any permissions for "others" on our home 
>directories.  

But they allow you to su to each other?  Seems schizophrenic that they're
so draconian about file permissions, while so lenient about su'ing.

>	       Thank you for your replies, but they won't help me.  What I 
>was thinking was to put my .emacs in a directory outside of my home 
>directory (that way the directory can have any permits I want).

emacs -q -l /path/to/other/.emacs

The -q option tells it not to try to load the default init file, and -l
option tells it to load that specific file.

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