From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customising .init.el for root user
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:00:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m9hi1u7vtpwc.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwqpnbh7j.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Then root is always user id 0?
>
> Almost: in reality, user-id 0 is the user that has the extra privileges.
> It is customarily called "root", but it can also have some other name,
> or even several names.
>
>
> Stefan
and if you start emacs with a sudo command, then your euid becomes this
super-user, #0? Very interesting.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 16:25 Customising .init.el for root user Johnny
2013-06-21 13:13 ` J. David Boyd
2013-06-21 13:18 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-21 14:55 ` J. David Boyd
2013-06-21 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-21 16:00 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2149.1371830721.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 16:55 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-21 17:15 ` J. David Boyd
2013-06-22 13:52 ` Johnny
2013-06-21 19:49 ` Harry Putnam
2013-06-22 14:03 ` Johnny
2013-06-22 21:26 ` Harry Putnam
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